sn.36.24 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Before

“Bhikkhus, before my enlightenment, while I was still a bodhisatta, not yet fully enlightened, it occurred to me: “What now is feeling? What is the origin of feeling? What is the way leading to the origination of feeling? What is the cessation of feeling? What is the way leading to the cessation of feeling? What is the gratification in feeling? What is the danger? What is the escape?”

“Then, bhikkhus, it occurred to me: ‘There are these three feelings … all as in preceding sutta … this is the escape from feeling.’”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh

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Before

“Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought:
‘What is feeling? What’s the origin of feeling? What’s the practice that leads to the origin of feeling? What’s the cessation of feeling? What’s the practice that leads to the cessation of feeling?
And what is feeling’s gratification, drawback, and escape?’
Then it occurred to me:
‘There are these three feelings:
pleasant, painful, and neutral.
These are called feeling.
Feeling originates from contact.
Craving is the practice that leads to the origin of feeling …
Removing and giving up desire and greed for feeling: this is its escape.’”