Paṭilōma Paṭicca Samuppāda – Key to Nibbāna

samphassa.” When those indriya are used as āyatana, one “makes contact with a defiled mind,” and that defiled contact is “samphassa” (“san” + “phassa“). This is discussed in “Difference between…

Vedana – What It Really Means

…My line of thinking: -As per MN44, vedana is in mano sankhara. Mano sankhara is defined as vedana and sanna “Assāsapassāsā kho, āvuso visākha, kāyasankhāro, vitakkavicārā vacīsankhāro, saññā ca vedanā…

Mūlapariyāya Sutta – The Root of All Things

…meaning it was “created (in mind) with a defiled cakkhu viññāna.” An Arahant‘s mind does not create this rupa. This is also the “samphassa” stage. That “samphassa” then leads to“samphassa-jā-vedanā”…

Reply To: Goenka´s Vipassana

…is a complete misunderstanding of Chachaka sutta AND vedananupassana in Satipatthana bhavana. Chachaka sutta MN 148 is about samphassa, samphassa-ja-vedana, and how those lead to attachment to sensory inputs and…

Niddesa (Brief Description) of Paṭicca Samuppāda

…viññāṇa cease; when kamma viññāṇa cease nāmarūpa cease; when nāmarūpa cease saḷāyatana cease; when saḷāyatana cease samphassa cease; when samphassa cease samphassa-jā-vedanā cease; when samphassa-jā-vedanā cease taṇhā cease; when taṇhā…

Reply To: 3 Kinds of Vedanā (Feelings)

…comprehending Four Noble Truths/Tilakkhana/Paticca Samuppada (PS), we will start seeing that attaching to sukha vedana can lead to future suffering. That leads to somanassa vedana type of samphassa-ja-vedana and we…