How to Contemplate Feeling in Buddhism

This article discusses the Distinct and Exhaustive Method of Contemplating Feeling, which is a type of Anupassanà (watching the feeling closely) that leads to success in Samodhàna (bringing together different dhammas). The method involves analyzing feeling with regard to its Arising (uppàda), mani-festation (upaññhàna) and Cessation (atthaïgama) so as to know further (a) what it arises from (b) while manifesting what characteristics are manifest and to what purpose (c) how it ceases to be.

Questions

• What is the Distinct and Exhaustive Method of Contemplating Feeling?
• What are the three aspects of feeling that are analyzed in this method?
• What are the results of seeing the truth of feeling?

Answers

• The Distinct and Exhaustive Method of Contemplating Feeling is a type of Anupassanà (watching the feeling closely) that leads to success in Samodhàna (bringing together different dhammas).
• The three aspects of feeling that are analyzed in this method are: its Arising (uppàda), mani-festation (upaññhàna) and Cessation (atthaïgama).
• The results of seeing the truth of feeling are that it is impermanent, unsatisfactory and no-self or void, and that it is not worth becoming attached to it.