I understand feelings as feeling happy, sad, elated, down - more like an emotion.
Sensations I understand as hot, cold, tingly, numb, all kinds of body pains or pleasant sensations in the body.
Which ones does the Buddha refers to in the Suttas?
I believe they are the sensations in the body and not feelings.
For example is I see a beautiful woman, eye and form, contact -> pleasant sensation in the abdomen -> craving(lust) -> clinging -> becoming and at this stage feeling happy with the beautiful woman form and then a bit sad when I dont see her and prompted by craving I start looking for another beautiful form to cling to and then happy, sad, repeating the cycle again and again.
In my understanding sensations are vedana and not feelings.
Asked by user4878
Sep 10, 2017, 09:00 AM
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