Friends:
Detached from both Bodily and Mental Feeling!
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, the uninstructed ordinary person
feels
pleasant feelings, painful feelings, and
neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings...
Such does the instructed Noble
Disciple also feel. What then is the difference,
the variation, and the
distinction between the instructed Noble Disciple and the
uninstructed
ordinary person ???
Bhikkhus, when the uninstructed ordinary person is
being touched by a painful
feeling, he cries, grieves, moans, weeps,
beats his breast & becomes bewildered!
He feels actually two feelings: A
bodily pain and a mental frustration...!!! Imagine
they hit a man with a
dart, and then they pricked him immediately with another dart,
then that
man would indeed feel two feelings caused by both the two darts. Similarly
is it in this case where the uninstructed ordinary person touched by a
painful feeling,
actually feels two feelings: A bodily pain and another
mental frustration over that.
Whenever touched by pain, he responds with
aversion towards that painful feeling,
the latent tendency to aversion
towards painful feeling grows deeper. When touched
by painful feeling,
he seeks to sense delight! Why? Because the uninstructed ordinary
person
does not know any other escape from painful feeling than seeking to
pleasure.
When he seeks towards delight in sensual pleasure, the latent
tendency to lust for
pleasant feeling grows deeper. He does not really
understand as it really is neither
the cause, nor the fading away, nor
the satisfaction, nor the danger, nor the escape
in the case of these
feelings.... Not understanding these things, when touched by a
neutral
neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling the latent tendency to ignorance also
grows deeper. When feeling a pleasant feeling, he feels it as if attached to
it and as
the owner being involved in it. When feeling a painful feeling,
he also feels this as if
attached to it and involved in it. If he feels
a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he
feels it as if attached to it
and involved in it... This, bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed
ordinary
person who is attached & clings desperately to birth, aging, death, sorrow,
pain, discontent, & despair. I tell you: He clings to Suffering ...!!!
Bhikkhus, when the instructed Noble Disciple is being touched by a painful
feeling, he
neither cries, nor grieves, nor moans, nor weeps, nor beats
his breast, nor becomes
bewildered! He feels actually only one feeling:
Bodily pain, yet no mental frustration!
Imagine they hit a man with only
one single dart, and not any other dart, then that man
would feel a
single feeling caused by only one single dart. So too, when the instructed
Noble Disciple is contacted by a painful feeling, then he feels one feeling:
A bodily pain,
but not any mental frustration. Touched by that same
painful feeling, he neither develops
nor maintains any aversion towards
it! Since he develops no aversion towards any painful
feeling, the
latent tendency to aversion towards painful feeling does not grow deeper...!
When touched by painful feeling, he does not wish for sense pleasure. For
what reason?
Because the instructed Noble Disciple knows another escape
from painful feeling other
than sensual pleasure! Since he does not seek
delight in sensual pleasure, the latent
tendency to lust for pleasant
feeling does not grow deeper. He understands as it really
is, the cause,
fading away, satisfaction, danger, and the escape in the case of feelings.
Since he understands these things, the latent tendency to ignorance, when
touched by
neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, does not grow deeper.
When feeling a pleasant
feeling, he feels it as if detached, remote &
alien. it. When feeling a painful feeling,
he also feels this as if
detached, remote & alien. If he feels a neither-painful-nor-
pleasant
feeling, he feels even that neutrality as if something detached, remote &
alien....
This, bhikkhus, is called a Noble Disciple, who is released
from birth, aging, and death!
Who is separated from sorrow, lamentation,
pain, discontent, and desperate despair...
I tell you, such one is
disconnected from Suffering. This, is the difference, variation,
&
distinction, between the learned Noble Disciple & an uninstructed ordinary
person!
The wise, clever & learned one does not feel the pleasant and
painful mental feeling!
This is the great difference between the wise &
learned one and the ordinary person.
For the learned one, who has
comprehended the Dhamma, who clearly sees this world
and the next,
desirable things does neither incite, nor stir up, nor stimulate his mind...
Towards anything disgusting, he has no aversion. All mental attraction and
repulsion
has ceased... Both have been extinguished, brought to silence.
Having known this stain-
and sorrow-less state, such transcender of
existence rightly understands...
Pleasant feeling induces greed...
Painful feeling produces hate...
Neither-painful-nor-pleasant neutral feeling
causes neglect & thus generates ignorance...
All
converges on Feeling (Vedanā):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Three_Basic_Kinds_of_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_8_Aspects_of_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Detached_from_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_108_Feelings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Emotional_Storm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Feelings.htm
Source (edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [208-10]
section 36: Feeling. Vedanā.
The Dart.
Sallatena.
6.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Updated:
18 Dec 2008
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