Friends:

Detached from Feeling one gains Immunity towards Suffering!

The Blessed Buddha once said to some sick bhikkhus:
If one keen on mental training feels a pleasant feeling, then he understands:
'As this pleasure is impermanent, it is neither to be clung to, nor indulged in...'
If he feels a painful feeling, he also understands and observes:
'As this pain is transient, it is neither to be clung to, nor engaged in...'
If he feels a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he similarly notes:
'As this neutral feeling is passing, it is neither to be clung to, nor delighted in...'
When he feels a pleasant feeling, he feels it as if detached from it!
When he feels a painful feeling, he feels it as if detached from it!
When he feels a neutral feeling, he feels it as if detached from it!
When he feels a feeling terminating with the body, he understands:
'I feel a feeling terminating with the body...' (all bodily feeling!)
When he feels a feeling terminating with life, he understands:
'I feel a feeling terminating with life...' (all mental feeling!)
He understands: With the breakup of this body, at the exhaustion of this life,
any feeling, neither being delighted in, nor clung to, will cool down right there...
Just as, bhikkhus, an oil lamp burns depending on the oil and the wick, & with the
exhaustion of the oil and the wick, the flame is extinguished through lack of fuel,
similarly here, bhikkhus, when a bhikkhu feels a feeling terminating with the body...
terminating with life... He understands: With the breakup of this body, at the very
exhaustion of this life, all that is felt, not being indulged in, will vanish right here...

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 [211-3]
section 36: Feeling. Vedanā. The Sick-Ward. 7.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
 

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