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SN 36.9 — Anicca Sutta: Impermanent

translated from the Pāli by Nyanaponika Thera

"The three kinds of feelings, O monks, are impermanent, compounded, dependently arisen, liable to destruction, to evanescence, to fading away, to cessation — namely, pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neutral feeling."

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