sn36.6:3.1 It’s like a person who is struck with an arrow,
sn36.6:3.2 but was not struck with a second arrow.
sn36.6:3.3 That person would experience the feeling of one arrow.
sn36.6:3.4 In the same way, when a learned noble disciple experiences painful physical feelings they don’t sorrow or wail or lament, beating their breast and falling into confusion.
sn36.6:3.5 They experience one feeling:
sn36.6:3.6 physical, not mental.
sn36.6:3.7 When they’re touched by painful feeling, they don’t resist it.
sn36.6:3.8 There’s no underlying tendency for aversion toward painful feeling underlying that.
sn36.6:3.9 When touched by painful feeling they don’t look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures.
sn36.6:3.10 Why is that?
sn36.6:3.11 Because a learned noble disciple understands an escape from painful feeling apart from sensual pleasures.
sn36.6:3.12 Since they don’t look forward to enjoying sensual pleasures, there’s no underlying tendency to greed for pleasant feeling underlying that.
sn36.6:3.13 They truly understand feelings’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.
sn36.6:3.14 There’s no underlying tendency to ignorance about neutral feeling underlying that.
sn36.6:3.15 If they feel a pleasant feeling, they feel it detached.
sn36.6:3.16 If they feel a painful feeling, they feel it detached.
sn36.6:3.17 If they feel a neutral feeling, they feel it detached.
sn36.6:3.18 They’re called a learned noble disciple who is detached from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They are detached from suffering, I say.
sn36.6:3.19 This is the difference between a learned noble disciple and an unlearned ordinary person.