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# SN 36.2 · Happiness (Sukha Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-36-2/
- Published: 2026-06-20T01:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:56:36.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 36.2. 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."

Be it a pleasant feeling, be it a painful feeling, be it neutral, one's own or others', feelings of all kinds\[1\] — he knows them all as ill, deceitful, evanescent. Seeing how they impinge again, again, and disappear,\[2\] he wins detachment from the feelings, passion-free. 

# Notes

1.

On "feelings of all kinds," see [SN 36.22](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-36-22/).

2.

*Phussa phussa vayam disva,* The Comy. explains differently, paraphrasing these words by *ñanena phusitva phusitva,* "repeatedly experiencing (them) by way of the knowledge (of rise and fall)." These verses occur also in Sutta Nipata, v. 739, with one additional line.

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