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SN 22.29PTS SN 3.311 min read

Taking Pleasure

Abhinandanasutta

If you enjoy the aggregates, you enjoy suffering.

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.29Linked Discourses 22.29
  • 0.23. Bhāravagga3. The Burden

0.3AbhinandanasuttaTaking Pleasure

1.1Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Yo, bhikkhave, rūpaṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati.“Mendicants, if you take pleasure in form, 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 vedanaṁ abhinandati …If you take pleasure in feeling …1.5yo saññaṁ abhinandati …perception …1.6yo saṅkhāre abhinandati …choices …1.7yo viññāṇaṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati.consciousness, you take pleasure in suffering.1.8Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.If you take pleasure in suffering, you’re not free from suffering, I say.

1.9Yo ca kho, bhikkhave, rūpaṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati.If you don’t take pleasure in form, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.1.10Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say.

1.11Yo vedanaṁ nābhinandati …If you don’t take pleasure in feeling …1.12yo saññaṁ nābhinandati …perception …1.13yo saṅkhāre nābhinandati …choices …1.14yo viññāṇaṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati.consciousness, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.1.15Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmī”ti.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say.”

1.16Aṭṭhamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. This discourse and the next parallel SN 14.35–6.

    ↩ sn22.29:1.2