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These 8 Aspects of Feeling should be Considered & Understood!!!

A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir,

1: What is Feeling?
2: What is the cause of Feeling?
3: What is the way to emergence of Feeling?
4: What is the ceasing of Feeling?
5: What is the way to cease Feeling?
6: What is the satisfaction in Feeling?
7: What is the danger in Feeling?
8: What is the escape from Feeling?

The Blessed Buddha answered:
There are, Bhikkhu, these three Feelings:
1: Pleasant Feeling, Painful Feeling, & Neither-painful-nor-pleasant Feeling. This is Feeling...
2: Sense Contact is the proximate cause of Feeling...
3: Craving is the way leading to the emergence of Feeling...
4: Ending of contact, ceases Feeling instantly...
5: This Noble Eightfold Way is the way to cease Feeling...
6: The delight and Joy of Feeling: This is the satisfaction within Feeling...
7: That Feeling is impermanent, subject to change & suffering: This is the danger in Feeling...
8: The removal & elimination of desire and lust for Feeling: This is the escape from Feeling...

Comment:
Running after pleasurable feeling like mad robots, beings come to pain & death again & again...

All converges on Feeling (Vedanā):
 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm
 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 Nikāya. Book IV [232-3]
section 36: On Feeling: Vedanā. A Certain Bhikkhu... 23.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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