The Buddha goes on to say that people might believe that feeling is “myself,” or “my self feels,” or even “my self is without feeling.” This identification then feeds the conditioned tendencies of desire for the pleasant, aversion to the unpleasant, and ignorance of the neutral, and so keeps us caught on the wheel of saṃsāra. Through contemplating feelings as impersonal processes, arising out of contact with the six sense objects (mind is included as the sixth sense), we no longer take these feelings to be self. And in those moments we are practicing the Buddha’s essential teaching, “Nothing
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