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Pańcakanga asks
Udāyi (Pandita Udāyī, says MA.ii.629) how many kinds of feelings the
Buddha mentions. Udāyi answers that there are three:
- pleasant,
- unpleasant and
- indifferent.
Pańcakanga, however, insists that there are but two: pleasant and unpleasant.
Ananda, overhearing the conversation, reports it to the Buddha, who says that
both Pańcakanga and Udāyi are correct because he himself classified feelings in
various ways; sensual pleasures might be pleasant, but are not the highest
pleasures; far better and more excellent are the pleasures enjoyed by a monk who
develops the four jhānas, the plane of infinity of consciousness and the plane
of nought.
M.i.396ff.; the Sutta is repeated at S. iv.223ff., under the name of
Pańcakanga Sutta.

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