Dhamma Letter No. 128
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Dhamma Letter No. 128
Satipatthana 45: Vedanānupassanā (Observation of feeling) 느낌관찰 9 How to practice in daily life.
The body and mind (matter and consciousness: Rupa-Nama) emphasized in Vipassana meditation are connected and interact, resulting in cause and effect.
Feelings arise as an intermediate medium between body and mind.
Through the sensations felt through the body, three feelings (like, dislike, and neutral) are revealed and the source of pollution is seen.
Through this, the path-fruit of enlightenment is achieved through the removal of impurities (Kilesa).
The state of the accumulated pollutants (Kilesa: anguish) must be recognized through the sensory sensations of the body. This is because the goal is to avoid experiencing suffering by preventing craving (tanha), which is the starting point of suffering, from progressing further into attachment (Upadana).
Recognizing all feelings as “Anicca: nothing is fixed, only changing” as a phenomenon, and repeated practice is required.
However, if the feeling is limited to the bodily sensation, which is sensation, there may be limits to the progress of the practice.
It is necessary to observe more expanded concrete feelings.
Even from a biological point of view, emotions also belong to the senses of the body. This is because all the nerve substances that are spread throughout the body are revealed as the emotional state of the mind. Therefore, it can be seen that feeling observation is expressed only as Dukkha (unpleasure / unsatisfaction of the body) & Sukkha (pleasure / satisfaction of the body) in the original text of Satipatthana, which includes bodily sensations and emotional states of the mind.
Being able to see not only the body, but also the feelings felt in the mind, the fundamental source of pollution can be removed, and there will be progress in the practice.
To be continued…
May you cultivate your Sati continuously (Samma-Viriya)!
May you achieve the Samma-Diṭṭhi (Right View) through Satipatthāna (vipassana meditation)!
May all practice well and reach to Magga (道, the path of enlightenment) and Phala (果, the fruit of enlightenment)!
with Metta,
Ayyā Kosallā
Edited by Euna Bonovich
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