← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN14.35Connected Discourses 14.35SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 14.354. Chapter FourTaking PleasureAt Sāvatthī.“Mendicants, if you take pleasure in the earth element, you take pleasure in suffering.If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering.If you take pleasure in the water element …If you take pleasure in the fire element …If you take pleasure in the air element, you take pleasure in suffering.If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering.If you don’t take pleasure in the earth element, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re exempt from suffering.If you don’t take pleasure in the water element …If you don’t take pleasure in the fire element …If you don’t take pleasure in the air element, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re exempt from suffering.”