[439] "Bhikkhus, before my awakening (sambodhi), while I was still an unawakened bodhisatta, it occurred to me: 'What now is feeling (vedanā)? What is the origin of feeling? What is the way of practice leading to 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)? What is the escape (nissaraṇa)?' Then, bhikkhus, it occurred to me: 'There are these three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These are called feeling. With the origin of contact (phassa) there is the origin of feeling; craving (taṇhā) is the way of practice leading to the origin of feeling … The removal of desire and lust (chandarāga) for feeling, the abandonment of desire and lust: this is the escape from feeling.'"
The fourth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.