Comment on The Place of “Feeling” in Buddhist Psychology by Ven Maithree

Ven Maithree — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:22:22 +0000

I think this is a very important point to be understood by all dhamma practitioners. Feelings arise in natural way. We should not try to stop them. Let feelings to arise. Until our sense organs are alive and have sense objects around them there will be feelings in our mind. But in the next step, there is something we have to do. At this stage mindfulness is a key factor to deal with feelings. Having understood the feelings with its characteristics, dhamma practioners can stay away from evaluating further those feelings. Observing feelings how they arise and disappear momentarily is necessary. Seeing feelings as feelings is necessary thing to do. We should not try to keep pleasant feelings longer with us. And should not show our anger towards unpleasant feelings also necessary to avoid from attachment to those objects. Following In this way, we can live in this world happily and meaningfully. I like this topic because it directly relates with our dhamma practice .

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