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　　"There are, revered Gotama, some ascetics and brahmans who have this doctrine and view: ”Whatever a person experiences, be it pleasure, pain or neither-pain-nor-pleasure, all that is caused by previous action.” Now, what does the revered Gotama say about this

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　　"Produced by (disorders of the) bile, there arise, Sivaka, certain kinds of feelings. That this happens, can be known by oneself; also in the world it is accepted as true. Produced by (disorders of the) phlegm... of wind... of (the three) combined... by change of climate... by adverse behavior... by injuries... by the results of Kamma — (through all that), Sivaka, there arise certain kinds of feelings. That this happens can be known by oneself; also in the world it is accepted as true.

　　"Now when these ascetics and brahmans have such a doctrine and view that ”whatever a person experiences, be it pleasure, pain or neither-pain-nor-pleasure, all that is caused by previous action,” then they go beyond what they know by themselves and what is accepted as true by the world. Therefore, I say that this is wrong on the part of these ascetics and brahmans."

　　When this was spoken, Moliya Sivaka, the wandering ascetic, said: "It is excellent, revered Gotama, it is excellent indeed!... May the revered Gotama regard me as a lay follower who, from today, has taken refuge in him as long as life lasts."

　　22. HUNDRED AND EIGHT FEELINGS

　　"I shall show you, O monks, a way of Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight (feelings). Hence listen to me.

　　"In one way, O monks, I have spoken of two kinds of feelings, and in other ways of three, five, six, eighteen, thirty six and one hundred and eight feelings.

　　"What are the two feelings

　　 Bodily and mental feelings.

　　"What are the three feelings

　　 Pleasant, painful and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings.

　　"What are the five feelings

　　 The faculties of pleasure, pain, gladness, sadness and equanimity.

　　"What are the six feelings

　　 The feelings born of sense-impression through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.

　　"What are the eighteen feelings

　　 There are the (above) six feelings by which there is an approach (to the objects) in gladness; and there are six approaches in sadness and there are six approaches in equanimity.

　　"What are the thirty six feelings

　　 There are six feelings of gladness based on the household life and six based on renunciation; six feelings of sadness based on the household life and six based on renunciation; six feelings of equanimity based on the household life and six based on renunciation.

　　"What are the hundred and eight feelings

　　 There are the (above) thirty six feelings of the past; there are thirty six of the future and there are thirty six of the present.

　　"These, O monks, are called the hundred and eight feelings; and this is the way of the Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight feelings."

　　TEXTS 23-29

　　(Repeat the paras 3 and 4 of Text 15; only the interlocutions differ.)

　　TEXT 30

　　(Contains only an enumeration of the three kinds of feeling.)

　　31. CESSATION

　　"There is, O monks, worldly joy (piti), there is unworldly joy,, and there is a still greater unworldly joy. There is worldly happiness (sukha), there is unworldly happiness, and there is a still greater unworldly happiness. There is worldly equanimity, there is unworldly equanimity, and there a still greater unworldly equanimity. There is worldly freedom, there is unworldly freedom, and there is a still greater unworldly freedom.

　　"Now, O monks, what is worldly joy

　　 There are these five cords of sense desire: forms cognizable by the eye that are wished for and desired, agreeable and endearing, associated with sense-desire and tempting to lust. Sounds cognizable by the ear... odors…

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