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Bahuvedanīya Sutta

Sutta

仏陀が受について二種類と説くのか三種類と説くのかをめぐる二人の弟子の意見の相違を解決する経典で、仏陀はどちらの答えも使う分類法によって正しいと説明し、感覚的快楽を禅定によって得られるより深い楽よりもはるかに低く位置づける。

Pañcakaṅga asks Udāyī (Paṇḍita Udāyī, says MA.ii.629) how many kinds of feelings the Buddha mentions. Udāyi answers that there are three:

pleasant,

unpleasant and

indifferent.

Pañcakaṅga, however, insists that there are but two: pleasant and unpleasant. Ānanda, overhearing the conversation, reports it to the Buddha, who says that both Pañcakaṅga 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.396 ff; the Sutta is repeated at S.iv.223 ff., under the name of Pañcakaṅga Sutta.

MN 59

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