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  • Bahuvedanīya Sutta

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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