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**wgX44EEn** · 10-28-2011, 01:32 AM

Hi, Kaarine,

The Buddha's definition of contact (phasso) is this:

The eye sees a form and there is the arising of eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is called contact (eye-contact). From that contact a sensation (visual sensation or visual "sensuality") arises that is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.

The same sequence applies with hearing, smelling, touching, tasting, and mental functions (all six senses as defined in the Eastern tradition).

From there, one can cling to that pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral sensation (paticcasamuppada, leading to suffering), or one can let that sensation be (paticcanirodha, leading to liberation from suffering).

The feeling or sensation is not an emotional reaction, it is the quality of the sensory experience. Emotion is a reaction to it.

Pain is an unpleasant bodily sensation (bodily contact --> sensation that is unpleasant).

10-28-2011, 01:32 AM	#2
wgX44EEn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 398 Senior Member	Hi, Kaarine, The Buddha's definition of contact (phasso) is this: The eye sees a form and there is the arising of eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is called contact (eye-contact). From that contact a sensation (visual sensation or visual "sensuality") arises that is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. The same sequence applies with hearing, smelling, touching, tasting, and mental functions (all six senses as defined in the Eastern tradition). From there, one can cling to that pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral sensation (paticcasamuppada, leading to suffering), or one can let that sensation be (paticcanirodha, leading to liberation from suffering). The feeling or sensation is not an emotional reaction, it is the quality of the sensory experience. Emotion is a reaction to it. Pain is an unpleasant bodily sensation (bodily contact --> sensation that is unpleasant).
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