The Four Causes of Feeling

The four causes of feeling are ignorance, craving, kamma, and sense-impression. When these four causes come together, feeling arises. The meditator can see this clearly by observing their own feelings as they arise.

Questions:

• What are the four causes of feeling?
• How can the meditator see these four causes at work?
• What is the result of contemplating the four causes of feeling?

Answers:

• The four causes of feeling are ignorance, craving, kamma, and sense-impression.
• The meditator can see these four causes at work by observing their own feelings as they arise. They can see that feelings are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self.
• The result of contemplating the four causes of feeling is the realization of nibbana.