Friends:
Which
are the 5 Abilities producing Feeling?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities to feel (vedanā).
What five?
The ability to feel
pleasure (
sukha).
The ability to feel pain (dukkha).
The ability to feel gladness (somanassa).
The ability to feel sadness (domanassa).
The ability to feel equanimity (upekkhā).
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability
to feel pleasure?
Whatever bodily pleasure there is, whatever bodily
comfort, any
pleasant agreeable feeling born of body-contact: This,
Bhikkhus,
is called the ability to feel pleasure.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability
to feel pain?
Whatever bodily pain there is, whatever bodily discomfort,
painful
disagreeable feeling born of body-contact: This, Bhikkhus,
is called
the ability to feel pain.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability
to feel gladness?
Whatever mental pleasure & joy there is, whatever mental
comfort,
pleasant agreeable feeling born of mental contact: This,
Bhikkhus,
is called the ability to feel gladness.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability
to feel sadness?
Whatever mental frustration there is, whatever mental
discomfort,
disagreeable feeling born of mental contact: This,
Bhikkhus, is the
ability to feel sadness.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability
to feel equanimity?
Whatever feeling there is, whether bodily or mental, that
is neither
comfortable nor uncomfortable, neither agreeable nor
disagreeable:
This, Bhikkhus, is called the ability to feel equanimity.
These, Bhikkhus, are the five abilities to feel feelings.