Knowra Vedanā Vedanā Vedanā is the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral feeling tone accompanying an experience. In Buddhist teaching, it is one of the five aggregates that make up conditioned experience.
Five aggregates : Five changing processes—form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness—used in Buddhism to analyze personal experience. Vedanā is the feeling aggregate, distinct from the other four processes.
Dependent origination : A Buddhist account of conditioned arising in which phenomena depend on supporting conditions rather than existing independently. Its sequence places feeling between contact and craving.
Emotion : A complex affective state involving appraisal, bodily change, feeling, and tendencies toward action. Vedanā is a basic pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral tone, not a full emotion.
Pāli Canon : The principal scriptural collection of Theravāda Buddhism, preserved in the Pāli language. Its discourses and analytical texts provide foundational accounts of vedanā.
Phassa : Contact in Buddhist psychology: the meeting of a sense faculty, an object, and the corresponding consciousness. Contact conditions the arising of feeling tone in dependent origination.
Taṇhā : Craving or thirst: a drive for sensual pleasure, continued existence, or nonexistence in Buddhist teaching. When feeling is not understood, it can condition craving.
Pain : An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain can involve unpleasant vedanā, but the Buddhist category also includes neutral and pleasant tones.
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta : A Pāli discourse teaching the four foundations of mindfulness, including contemplation of feelings. It instructs practitioners to discern pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings.
Six sense bases : The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind, together with their corresponding objects, in Buddhist analysis. Feeling arises through contact involving one of these six faculties.
Upādāna : Clinging or appropriation, the intensified attachment that sustains suffering in Buddhist accounts of dependent origination. Craving conditioned by feeling can develop into clinging.
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