Joseph explores the concept of Vedana, explaining the Buddha’s heavy emphasis on establishing this form of mindfulness to better understand how our lives are unfolding on the path of awakening.
Vedana is the Buddhist term for the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations that arise when our internal sense organs interact with external sense objects and the associated consciousness.
In first recognizing, and subsequently investigating the origins of these feeling tones, we begin to decondition our deeply habituated tendency to grasp, avert or tune out to a given stimulus. Through practice, we gain ground on the reactive mind and further align ourselves with our true nature.
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