mn148:34.1 Eye consciousness arises dependent on the eye and sights. The meeting of the three is contact. Contact is a requirement for the arising of what is felt as pleasant, painful, or neutral.
mn148:34.2 When you experience a pleasant feeling, if you don’t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to it,
mn148:34.3 the underlying tendency to greed does not underlie that.
mn148:34.4 When you experience a painful feeling, if you don’t sorrow or wail or lament, beating your breast and falling into confusion,
mn148:34.5 the underlying tendency to aversion does not underlie that.
mn148:34.6 When you experience a neutral feeling, if you truly understand that feeling’s origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape,
mn148:34.7 the underlying tendency to ignorance does not underlie that.
mn148:34.8 Mendicants, after giving up the underlying tendency to greed for pleasant feeling, after dispelling the underlying tendency to aversion toward painful feeling, after eradicating ignorance in the case of neutral feeling, after giving up ignorance and giving rise to knowledge, it’s quite possible to make an end of suffering in this very life.