| To live is to feel. We feel the contact of breath and touch; we feel our inner and outer world through our heart-mind; and in the Dharma, feeling specifically refers to vedanā—the feeling we have about sensations: pleasant; unpleasant; or neither. Each of these distinct meanings of 'feeling' calls for an appropriate response for we can all too easily get desensitised, overwhelmed, or reactive to what we feel. Dharma teachings and practices reveal ways to meet the full range of feelings we encounter in our life in transformative ways. What we feel through contact can be sensitively shaped towards harmonious well-being. All we feel through our resonant heart-mind can be nurtured into liberating beauty. And vedanā, when met with wholesome skilfulness, eventually frees everything. |
