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# SN 36.1 · Concentration (Samadhi Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-36-1/
- Published: 2026-06-20T01:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:56:39.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 36.1. Translated by Nyanaponika Thera.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
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"There are, O monks, these three feelings: pleasant feelings, painful feelings, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings."

A disciple of the Buddha, mindful, clearly comprehending, with his mind collected, he knows the feelings\[1\] and their origin,\[2\] knows whereby they cease\[3\] and knows the path that to the ending of feelings lead.\[4\] And when the end of feelings he has reached, such a monk, his thirsting quenched, attains Nibbana."\[5\] 

# Notes

1.

Comy.: He knows the feelings 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 cease in Nibbana.

4.

Comy.: He knows the feelings 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).*

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*Translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera.* From [Access to Insight](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.001.nypo.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (BCBS Edition). Licensed under free distribution only (see source for the specific license) — for free distribution only. Never sold.