Contemplation of Feelings (vedanānupassanā)
The Satipaṭṭhānasutta - Pāli Text, English Translation and Commentary by Pemasiri Thera - Tamara Ditrich
Tamara Ditrich [+]
University of Ljubljana
Tamara Ditrich has taught and researched at several universities in Australia and Europe, and is currently Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Ljubljana. Her areas of interest include Buddhist Studies, Sanskrit language, and Vedic philology, while her current research focuses mainly on Theravāda Buddhism.
Description
Chapter 3 focuses on the contemplation of feeling (vedanā), highlighting the important role of mindfulness of feeling in meditation and outlining its central position within Buddhist doctrinal models. The three modalities of feeling are introduced (i.e., pleasant, unpleasant and neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant) and how they are related to both the body and mind, and significantly, how they are linked to craving which is viewed as the very root of suffering.