sn36.6:1.1 “Mendicants, an unlearned ordinary person feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings.
sn36.6:1.2 A learned noble disciple also feels pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings.
sn36.6:1.3 What, then, is the difference between a learned noble disciple and an ordinary unlearned person?”
sn36.6:1.4 “Our teachings are rooted in the Buddha. …”
sn36.6:1.5 “When an unlearned ordinary person experiences painful physical feelings they sorrow and wail and lament, beating their breast and falling into confusion.
sn36.6:1.6 They experience two feelings:
sn36.6:1.7 physical and mental.
sn36.6:1.8 It’s like a person who is struck with an arrow,
sn36.6:1.9 only to be struck with a second arrow.
sn36.6:1.10 That person experiences the feeling of two arrows.
sn36.6:1.11 In the same way, when an unlearned ordinary person experiences painful physical feelings they sorrow and wail and lament, beating their breast and falling into confusion.
sn36.6:1.12 They experience two feelings:
sn36.6:1.13 physical and mental.
sn36.6:1.14 When they’re touched by painful feeling, they resist it.
sn36.6:1.15 The underlying tendency for aversion toward painful feeling underlies that.
sn36.6:1.16 When touched by painful feeling they look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures.
sn36.6:1.17 Why is that?
sn36.6:1.18 Because an unlearned ordinary person doesn’t understand any escape from painful feeling apart from sensual pleasures.
sn36.6:1.19 Since they look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures, the underlying tendency to greed for pleasant feeling underlies that.
sn36.6:1.20 They don’t truly understand feelings’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.
sn36.6:1.21 The underlying tendency to ignorance about neutral feeling underlies that.
sn36.6:1.22 If they feel a pleasant feeling, they feel it attached.
sn36.6:1.23 If they feel a painful feeling, they feel it attached.
sn36.6:1.24 If they feel a neutral feeling, they feel it attached.
sn36.6:1.25 They’re called an unlearned ordinary person who is attached to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They are attached to suffering, I say.