A Good Friend asked:
>How can one stop unpleasant bodily feeling?
Answer:
Feeling (vedanā) cannot be stopped as long as there is contact!
From a moment of sense contact inevitably arise a moment of feeling.
But feeling can be felt as ‘remote’, ‘not mine’, ‘distant’ = ‘not disturbing’!
Even the Arahat feel physical pain, when he cuts his finger,
but he is not afflicted or disturbed by it (no mental pain), since:
1: He is not opposing this physical pain, he does not create the 2nd feeling: Mental frustration!
2: He does not cling to this moment of painful feeling or any other phenomena whatsoever.
3: He does not resist neither this painful feeling, nor anything else. He accepts all, as it comes.
4: He sees it arise and knows it will cease by itself, by the sheer force of impermanence. (insight)
5: He has complete mental control and can direct attention away from any object & feeling.
>How can one stop unpleasant bodily feeling?
Answer:
Feeling (vedanā) cannot be stopped as long as there is contact!
From a moment of sense contact inevitably arise a moment of feeling.
But feeling can be felt as ‘remote’, ‘not mine’, ‘distant’ = ‘not disturbing’!
Even the Arahat feel physical pain, when he cuts his finger,
but he is not afflicted or disturbed by it (no mental pain), since:
1: He is not opposing this physical pain, he does not create the 2nd feeling: Mental frustration!
2: He does not cling to this moment of painful feeling or any other phenomena whatsoever.
3: He does not resist neither this painful feeling, nor anything else. He accepts all, as it comes.
4: He sees it arise and knows it will cease by itself, by the sheer force of impermanence. (insight)
5: He has complete mental control and can direct attention away from any object & feeling.
6: He feels any feeling as something alien, remote, distant, weak, irrelevant, and impersonal,
just as if somebody, one does not know, is speaking to someone else in another room…
just as if somebody, one does not know, is speaking to someone else in another room…
Let Feeling yell and roar as much as it wants. Mind your ‘own’ business!
And the feeling will vanish even before one perceives it…
Have a nice & noble day!
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