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
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 [204-5]
36: feeling. Vedanā.
Focused on Pleasure. 1-2.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
