Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each sense contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.

Sakkayaditthi (identity view) and five aggregates. Understanding how our experience as humans gets created. Exploring the illusion of continuity of self.

Mindfulness can be cultivated in many ways, but the supreme use of it is to restain awareness from clinging to the five aggregates.

An exploration of the physical and mental processes that comprise our experience, and how clearly seeing them can lead to freedom.

A guided meditation exploring experience increasingly without a sense of self, through mindfulness of the five "aggregates" (khandhas or skandhas): form, feeling-tone, perception, thoughts and emotions (and other "mental formations), and consciousness.