[403] Then the Venerable Ānanda approached the Blessed One; having approached and paid homage to the Blessed One, he sat down to one side. As the Venerable Ānanda was seated to one side, the Blessed One said this to him: "What now, Ānanda, is feeling (vedanā)? What is the origin of feeling? What is the cessation of feeling? What is the way of practice leading to the cessation of feeling? What is the gratification (assāda) in feeling? What is the danger (ādīnava) in feeling? What is the escape (nissaraṇa) from feeling?"
"Venerable sir, our teachings are rooted in the Blessed One, guided by the Blessed One, have the Blessed One as their recourse. It would be good, venerable sir, if the meaning of this statement would occur to the Blessed One himself; having heard it from the Blessed One, the bhikkhus will remember it."
"Then, Ānanda, listen and attend carefully; I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," the Venerable Ānanda replied to the Blessed One. The Blessed One said this: "There are, Ānanda, these three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These, Ānanda, are called feeling. … With the origin of contact … For a bhikkhu whose taints (āsava) are destroyed, greed is stilled, hatred is stilled, delusion is stilled."
The Sixth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.