[404] Then a number of bhikkhus approached the Blessed One; having approached, they paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down to one side. Sitting to one side, those bhikkhus said this to the Blessed One: "What now, venerable sir, 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?"
"Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These, bhikkhus, are called feeling. With the origin of contact (phassa) there is the origin of feeling; with the cessation of contact there is the cessation of feeling. This very Noble Eightfold Path is the way of practice leading to the cessation of feeling, that is: right view … right concentration (samādhi). The pleasure and joy that arise in dependence on feeling: this is the gratification in feeling. That feeling is impermanent, suffering (dukkha), and subject to change: this is the danger in feeling. The removal of desire and lust (chandarāga) for feeling, the abandoning of desire and lust for feeling: this is the escape from feeling."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.