[273] "Aggivessana, there are these three feelings (vedanā): pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. Aggivessana, on an occasion when one feels a pleasant feeling, on that occasion one does not feel a painful feeling, nor does one feel a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling; on that occasion one feels only a pleasant feeling. Aggivessana, on an occasion when one feels a painful feeling, on that occasion one does not feel a pleasant feeling, nor does one feel a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling; on that occasion one feels only a painful feeling. Aggivessana, on an occasion when one feels a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, on that occasion one does not feel a pleasant feeling, nor does one feel a painful feeling; on that occasion one feels only a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.
Pleasant feeling, Aggivessana, is impermanent, conditioned, dependently originated, subject to destruction, subject to vanishing, subject to fading away, subject to cessation. Painful feeling too, Aggivessana, is impermanent, conditioned, dependently originated, subject to destruction, subject to vanishing, subject to fading away, subject to cessation. Neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling too, Aggivessana, is impermanent, conditioned, dependently originated, subject to destruction, subject to vanishing, subject to fading away, subject to cessation.
Seeing thus, Aggivessana, the learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with pleasant feeling, becomes disenchanted with painful feeling, becomes disenchanted with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling; being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion he is liberated; when liberated, there is the knowledge (ñāṇa): 'It is liberated.' He understands: 'Birth (jāti) is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more of this state of being.'
Aggivessana, a bhikkhu whose mind (citta) is thus liberated sides with no one and disputes with no one; whatever is spoken of in the world, by that he expresses himself without grasping."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.