Zapper wrote: “Also, I forgot to make my point clear.
By bodily reactions, I mean, for example, if someone sees an agreeable visual form, the physical body (Kāya) reacts to it.”
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I am glad that you did. It is essential to settle that first.
- That is incorrect. “kāyika dukkha” means dukkha vedana associated with bodily injuries, sicknesses, etc. It is a vedana felt by the physical body. It is experienced via the nervous system in the physical body.