1"Bhikkhus, there are these five faculties. What five? The pleasure faculty … the equanimity faculty.

1"Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, indriyāni. Katamāni pañca? Sukhindriyaṁ, dukkhindriyaṁ, somanassindriyaṁ, domanassindriyaṁ, upekkhindriyaṁ.

2"And what, bhikkhus, is the pleasure faculty? Whatever bodily pleasure there is, whatever bodily comfort,[n.211] āKayikaṁ sātaṁ. Spk: "Bodily" means based on bodily sensitivity (kāyappasādavatthuka); "comfort" is synonymous with pleasure and means sweet (madhura). the pleasant comfortable feeling born of body-contact: this, bhikkhus, is called the pleasure faculty.

2Katamañca, bhikkhave, sukhindriyaṁ? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, kāyikaṁ sukhaṁ, kāyikaṁ sātaṁ, kāyasamphassajaṁ sukhaṁ sātaṁ vedayitaṁ – idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sukhindriyaṁ.

3"And what, bhikkhus, is the pain faculty? Whatever bodily pain there is, whatever bodily discomfort, the painful uncomfortable feeling born of body-contact: this, bhikkhus, is called the pain faculty.

3Katamañca, bhikkhave, dukkhindriyaṁ? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, kāyikaṁ dukkhaṁ, kāyikaṁ asātaṁ, kāyasamphassajaṁ dukkhaṁ asātaṁ vedayitaṁ – idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, dukkhindriyaṁ.

4"And what, bhikkhus, is the joy faculty? Whatever mental pleasure there is, whatever mental comfort, the pleasant comfortable feeling born of mind-contact: this, bhikkhus, is called the joy faculty.

4Katamañca, bhikkhave, somanassindriyaṁ? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, cetasikaṁ sukhaṁ, cetasikaṁ sātaṁ, manosamphassajaṁ sukhaṁ sātaṁ vedayitaṁ – idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, somanassindriyaṁ.

5"And what, bhikkhus, is the displeasure faculty? Whatever mental pain there is, whatever mental discomfort, the painful uncomfortable feeling born of mind-contact: this, bhikkhus, is called the displeasure faculty.

5Katamañca, bhikkhave, domanassindriyaṁ? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, cetasikaṁ dukkhaṁ, cetasikaṁ asātaṁ, manosamphassajaṁ dukkhaṁ asātaṁ vedayitaṁ – idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, domanassindriyaṁ.

6"And what, bhikkhus, is the equanimity faculty? Whatever feeling there is, whether bodily or mental, that is neither comfortable nor uncomfortable: this, bhikkhus, is called the equanimity faculty.[n.212] According to the Abhidhamma, all bodily feeling, that is, feeling arisen through bodily sensitivity (kāyappasāda), is either pleasant or painful; there is no neutral feeling based on bodily sensitivity. Hence Spk explains the bodily equanimity as feeling arisen based on the other four senses, the eye, etc. The word upekkhā, translated as equanimity, has two main denotations. In relation to feeling it denotes neutral feeling, adukkhamasukha vedanā, feeling which is neither painful nor pleasant. As a mental quality, however, it denotes mental neutrality, impartiality, or balance of mind (called tatramajjhattatā in the Abhidhamma, which assigns it to the saṅkhārakkhandha). In this sense it occurs as the fourth divine abode (impartiality towards beings), as the seventh factor of enlightenment (mental equipoise), and as a quality of the meditative mind mentioned in the formulas for the third and fourth jhānas. For a fuller discussion of the different types of upekkha, see Vism 160–62 (Ppn 4:156–70).

6Katamañca, bhikkhave, upekkhindriyaṁ? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, kāyikaṁ vā cetasikaṁ vā nevasātaṁ nāsātaṁ vedayitaṁ – idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, upekkhindriyaṁ.

"These, bhikkhus, are the five faculties."

Imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañcindriyānī"ti.

Chaṭṭhaṁ.