The 3 Feelings ... !!!

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The Three Basic Kinds of feeling!

 

The blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus and friends, there are these three feelings... What three?

 

Pleasant feeling, Painful feeling, Neutral neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.These are the three basic feelings!A disciple of the Buddha, aware,Focused, comprehending clearly,Understands these three feelings.And contact as the cause of any feeling.When contact ceases they fade away & vanish,And The Noble Way leading to their destruction.With the final quenching of feeling one is without any yearning and fully stilled...Whether feeling is pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,Whether internal or external;Whatever kind of feeling there is:Having known: This is also Suffering,Perishing, momentary, disintegrating...Having been touched and contacted by them, Noting their instant ceasing, one gradually loses all passion for them...There are these three feelings. What three? Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.

Buddha furthermore said:All mental states converges on feeling...

5-fold definition here:http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vedanaa.htm

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V [411-2]36: feeling. Vedanā. Focused on Pleasure. 1-2. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

 

 

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