SN 48.31PTS SN 5.2071 min read

Plain Version

Suddhikasutta

Five faculties: pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity.

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

0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.31Linked Discourses 48.31
0.24. Sukhindriyavagga4. The Pleasure Faculty

0.3SuddhikasuttaPlain Version

1.1“Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, indriyāni.“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.¹1.2Katamāni pañca?What five?1.3Sukhindriyaṁ, dukkhindriyaṁ, somanassindriyaṁ, domanassindriyaṁ, upekkhindriyaṁ—The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity.1.4imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañcindriyānī”ti.These are the five faculties.”

1.5Paṭhamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

Here we move on to another set of faculties, the five faculties relating to feeling. The capacity to feel is also a kind of spiritual potency, since feeling stirs a meditator to the path. They are defined at SN 48.36.
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