SN 36.1 Samadhi Sutta

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SN 36.1 Samadhi Sutta : Concentration
"There are, O monks, these three feelings/sensations: pleasant feelings/sensations, painful feelings/sensations, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings/sensations." A disciple of the Buddha, mindful, clearly comprehending, with his mind collected, he knows the feelings/sensations(1) and their origin,(2) knows whereby they cease(3) and knows the path that to the ending of feelings/sensations lead.(4) And when the end of feelings/sensations he has reached, such a monk, his thirsting quenched, attains Nibbana."(5)

Notes:

1.Comy.: He knows the feelings/sensations by way of the Truth of Suffering.

2.Comy.: He knows them by way of the Truth of the Origin of Suffering.

3.Comy.: He knows, by way of the Truth of Cessation, that feelings/sensations cease in Nibbana.

4.Comy.: He knows the feelings/sensations by way of the Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering.

5.Parinibbuto, "fully extinguished"; Comy.: through the full extinction of the defilements (kilesa-parinibbanaya).