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# Iti 53 · uttaka 53
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/iti-53/
- Published: 2026-06-01T00:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:59:31.000Z
- Description: Itivuttaka · Iti 53. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
- Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Buddha, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Itivuttaka, Verse, Pali, Early Buddhist, Library, #Import 2026-07-06 03:33

*This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard:* “Monks, there are these three feelings. Which three? A feeling of pleasure, a feeling of pain, a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain. A feeling of pleasure should be seen as stressful. A feeling of pain should be seen as an arrow. A feeling of neither pleasure nor pain should be seen as inconstant. When a monk has seen a feeling of pleasure as stressful, a feeling of pain as an arrow, and a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain as inconstant, then he is called a monk who is noble, who has seen rightly, who has cut off craving, destroyed the fetters, and who–from the right breaking-through of conceit–has put an end to suffering & stress.”

Whoever sees

pleasure as stress,

sees pain as an arrow,

sees peaceful neither pleasure nor pain

as inconstant:

he is a monk

who’s seen rightly.

From that he is there released.

A master of direct knowing,

at peace,

he is a sage

gone beyond bonds.

See also: [MN 44](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/mn-44/); [SN 36:4](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-36-4/); [SN 36:6](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-36-6/)

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