Connected Discourses 36.27

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1. Linked Discourses 36.27
2. 3. The Explanation of the Hundred and Eight
3. Ascetics and Brahmins (1st)
4. “Mendicants, there are these three feelings.
5. What three?
6. Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.
7. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these three feelings’ gratification, drawback, and escape.
8. I don’t deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don’t live having realized it with their own insight.
9. There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand these three feelings’ gratification, drawback, and escape.
10. I deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.”