Linked Discourses 36.14

2. In Private

A Guest House

“Mendicants, suppose there was a guest house. Lodgers come from the east, west, north, and south. Aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials all stay there.
In the same way, various feelings arise in this body: pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings.
Also pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings of the flesh arise.
Also pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings not of the flesh arise.”