![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: How an understanding of feeling leads to Nibbana.")
"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).