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SN 14.35PTS SN 2.1741 min read

Taking Pleasure

Abhinandasutta

When you seek pleasure in the material elements, you seek pleasure in suffering.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 14.35Linked Discourses 14.35
  • 0.24. Catutthavagga4. Chapter Four

0.3AbhinandasuttaTaking Pleasure

1.1Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Yo, bhikkhave, pathavīdhātuṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati.“Mendicants, if you take pleasure in the earth element, you take pleasure in suffering.11.3Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.If you take pleasure in suffering, you’re not free from suffering, I say.1.4Yo āpodhātuṁ abhinandati …pe…If you take pleasure in the water element …1.5yo tejodhātuṁ …If you take pleasure in the fire element …1.6yo vāyodhātuṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati.If you take pleasure in the air element, you take pleasure in suffering.1.7Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.If you take pleasure in suffering, you’re not free from suffering, I say.

2.1PTS 2.175Yo ca kho, bhikkhave, pathavīdhātuṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati.If you don’t take pleasure in the earth element, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.2.2Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say.2.3Yo āpodhātuṁ …pe…If you don’t take pleasure in the water element …2.4yo tejodhātuṁ …If you don’t take pleasure in the fire element …2.5yo vāyodhātuṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati.If you don’t take pleasure in the air element, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.2.6Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmī”ti.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say.”

2.7Chaṭṭhaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. Said also of the aggregates (SN 22.29) and the senses (SN 35.19, 20).

    ↩ sn14.35:1.2