Living Arahants can experience only the “saririka vedana” in the physical body (like injuries, sicknesses, etc.) They do not experience “mental suffering.”
- One could think of Sankhara dukkha, viparinama dukkha, and dukkha dukkha as dukkha vedana.
- But they are also the CAUSES of future suffering.
- Arahants do not engage in those and also are not affected by them.
There are many ways to think about Sankhara dukkha, viparinama dukkha, and dukkha dukkha.
- For example, when someone attaches to an arammana, they start doing sankhara with avijja. That leads to “heating the mind” while doing them and also leads to future suffering.
- Whenever one is engaged in “avijja paccaya sankhara,” that moves them away from the “pabhassara mind.” That is going backward or “viparinama.”
- Whenever a mind attaches to a “disliked arammana,” that causes “heating or stress in mind.” But then they keep thinking about it and generate more “stressful thoughts,” and that leads to a second round of suffering based on the same arammana. P.S. The Buddha compared that to being pierced by a spear twice: “Salla Sutta (SN 36.6.)“
- I will write about those in upcoming posts. We can see various levels of suffering depending on how deep one goes!
