Dighanikaya 22.380_4

22.380_4

Yathā ca sukhaṃ, evaṃ dukkhaṃ…pe… nirāmisaṃ adukkhamasukhaṃ vedanaṃ vedayamāno ‘‘nirāmisaṃ adukkhamasukhaṃ vedanaṃ vedayāmī’’ti pajānāti. Iti bhagavā rūpakammaṭṭhānaṃ kathetvā arūpakammaṭṭhānaṃ kathento yasmā phassavasena cittavasena vā kathiyamānaṃ pākaṭaṃ na hoti, andhakāraṃ viya khāyati, vedanānaṃ pana uppattipākaṭatāya vedanāvasena pākaṭaṃ hoti, tasmā sakkapañhe viya idhāpi vedanāvasena arūpakammaṭṭhānaṃ kathesi. Tattha ‘‘duvidhañhi kammaṭṭhānaṃ rūpakammaṭṭhānaṃ arūpakammaṭṭhānañcā’’tiādi kathāmaggo sakkapañhe vuttanayeneva veditabbo.

And just as for pleasure, so too for pain... pe... experiencing an unworldly neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he understands: "I experience an unworldly neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling." Thus, having explained the meditation subject of materiality, the Blessed One explained the meditation subject of non-materiality; because when explained by way of contact or by way of mind it is not evident, but appears as if dark, whereas by way of feeling it is evident due to the obviousness of the arising of feelings, therefore here, as in the Sakkapañha Sutta, he explained the meditation subject of non-materiality by way of feeling. Therein, the line of explanation beginning with "For the meditation subject is twofold: the meditation subject of materiality and the meditation subject of non-materiality" should be understood strictly according to the method stated in the Sakkapañha Sutta.