[238] Bhikkhus, just as from the conjunction and rubbing together of two sticks, warmth is born and heat (tejo) is produced, and from the separation and laying apart of those same two sticks, the corresponding warmth ceases, it subsides — even so, bhikkhus, in dependence on a contact (phassa) to be felt as pleasant, pleasant feeling (vedanā) arises; with the cessation of that same contact to be felt as pleasant, the corresponding felt experience — the pleasant feeling that arose in dependence on the contact to be felt as pleasant — ceases, it subsides. In dependence on a contact to be felt as painful, painful feeling arises; with the cessation of that same contact to be felt as painful, the corresponding felt experience — the painful feeling that arose in dependence on the contact to be felt as painful — ceases, it subsides. In dependence on a contact to be felt as neither-painful-nor-pleasant, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling arises; with the cessation of that same contact to be felt as neither-painful-nor-pleasant, the corresponding felt experience — the neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling that arose in dependence on the contact to be felt as neither-painful-nor-pleasant — ceases, it subsides.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.