Feelings

Group of five omnipresent mental factors

Part of a series of teachings given at Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle from January 1995 to April 1996.

  • How the primary mind and the mental factors are related, depend on the same sense organs
  • Feeling, one of the five omnipresent mental factors
  • An experiment to show how to separate feeling from sensation, get in touch with basic experience
  • Value of focusing on sensations instead of the feelings arising with them
  • Developing an awareness of the difference between direct perception and conceptual perception

Mind and mental factors 02: Omnipresent mental factors (download)

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.

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