Friends:
Feeling (Vedanã):
Causes & Effects:
Definitions:
There is Pleasant Feeling = mental
gladness & bodily pleasure.
There is Painful Feeling = mental sadness & bodily pain.
There is neither Pleasant nor Painful Feeling = neutral indifference.
Dynamics:
Pleasant Feeling is agreeable when arising, yet disagreeable when ceasing!
Painful Feeling is disagreeable when arising, yet agreeable when ceasing!
Neutral Feeling is quite agreeable, when one is aware of its presence,
yet quite dull & disagreeable, when one is unaware of its presence!
Side-Effects:
If Unaware, Pleasant Feeling will inevitably cause the arising
of Desire & Craving!
If Aware, Pleasant Feeling will not cause the arising of neither Desire
nor Craving!
If Unaware, Painful Feeling will inevitably cause the arising of Aversion
& Anger.
If Aware, Painful Feeling will not cause the arising of neither Aversion
nor Anger.
If Unaware, Neutral Feeling will inevitably cause the arising of Neglect &
Ignorance.
If Aware, Neutral Feeling will not cause arising of neither Neglect nor
Ignorance.
Near Causes:
The Cause of Feeling is Contact: Eye-contact, Ear-contact,
Nose-contact,
Tongue-contact, Body-contact or Mental-contact. At the momentary ceasing
of Contact, the associated feeling also instantly ceases.
Effects:
The Effect of the phenomena Feeling is -in the case- of
Unawareness:
Craving towards the object = Attraction, when the feeling is pleasant.
Craving away from the object = Repulsion, when the feeling is painful.
Craving towards 'other' than object = neglect, when the feeling is
neutral.
Characteristics:
Feeling is -as everything else- that is conditioned &
constructed:
Transient, impermanent, passing, unkeepable, & unmaintainable.
Dissatisfactory, disappointing, frustrating, painful, & miserable.
Impersonal, selfless, ownerless, &
not-Me-nor-I-nor-Mine-nor-Self.
Paradox:
There is this changing phenomena Feeling, yet there is no
Feeler...
Buddha said:
Everything converges on this Feeling...
More on Feeling:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Three_Basic_Kinds_of_Feeling.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
