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Saṃyutta Nikāya
Vedanāsaṃyuttaṃ
Daṭṭhabbasuttaṃ
SN36.5

'These three, almsmen, feelings. Which three? Feelings from happiness, feelings from suffering, feelings from neither happiness nor suffering.

Feelings from happiness, almsmen, are to be seen as from suffering. Feelings from suffering are to be seen as from a spike. Feelings neither from happiness nor from suffering are to be seen as from unstableness.

Now from what, almsmen, is to an almsman the feeling from happiness, it is seen from suffering. The feeling from suffering, it is seen from a spike, The feeling neither from happiness nor from suffering, it is seen from unstableness. This is called, almsmen, an almsmen rightly seeing. He cut out longing, turned down the yoke, by right comprehension of esteem he made an end of suffering.'

What is happiness he saw from suffering, suffering he saw from a spike,
neither happiness nor suffering being, he saw as from unstableness.
That surely is a rightly seeing almsmen, he understands feelings.

He, the feelings understanding, sees in principle the drainless.
After the breaking up of the body, the principle gained,
the attainer of the highest knowledge, can not come to reckoning.