"ALL THE FEELS"

<p><strong>Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.</strong></p> <p>The title of <strong>this Dhamma Session is "All the Feels" and focuses on the Buddha's teaching on feeling or experience (vedanā). </strong>We study the Salla Sutta (SN 36.6) as well as other supporting suttas. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The question that is often asked is around "</strong><em><strong>why does the Buddha and the noble disciples constantly talk about bearing with conditions?</strong></em><strong>"; or "</strong><em><strong>how can we not be shaken by difficult conditions?</strong></em><strong>" </strong>We seek to find some answers in the Buddha's teachings on feeling (vedanā) and drawing on some of what we have learned in our earlier sessions.</p> <p>In this session we look at: &nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>— the importance of not responding to feeling (any of the three kinds of feeling) by going through the Salla Sutta&nbsp;</li> <li>— revisit the Buddha's teachings on objects, contact and feeling, which all result in suffering (or dukkha)&nbsp;</li> <li>— highlight the underlying tendencies that lie behind the three kinds of feeling</li> <li>— discuss the reflection of feeling as a "water bubble"&nbsp;</li> <li>— link in the 2nd Unprofitable Direction - Contact as Nutriment and the Buddha's simile of a flayed cow&nbsp;</li> <li>— bring this back to dependent origination</li> <li>— lay the groundwork for future sessions on the 2nd Profitable Direction or Doorway to Nibbana (Painful Practice with Quick Realisation) and the Bases of Spiritual Power (iddhipāda)</li> </ul> <p>Suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>— Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Pahāna Sutta (SN 36.3)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Samādhi-bhāvana Sutta (SN 22.5)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Pātāla Sutta (SN 36.4)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Pheṇapiṇḍūpama Sutta (SN 36.6)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Ph