Should Be Seen

“Mendicants, there are these three feelings.

What three?

Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.

Pleasant feeling should be seen as suffering. Painful feeling should be seen as a dart. Neutral feeling should be seen as impermanent.

When a mendicant has seen these three feelings in this way,

they’re called a mendicant who sees rightly, has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.

A mendicant who sees pleasure as pain,

and suffering as a dart,

and that peaceful, neutral feeling

as impermanent

sees rightly;

they completely understand feelings.

Completely understanding feelings,

they’re without defilements in this very life.

That knowledge master is firm in principle;

when their body breaks up, they can’t be reckoned.”