The Related Suttas Collection 36.5

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“Bhikkhus, 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 bhikkhu has seen these three feelings in this way, they’re called a bhikkhu who sees rightly, has cut off craving, untied the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.

A bhikkhu 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.”