vedanā is there all the time

Unique contribution of Buddha

He told people,

"Understand this law.

The vedanā is there all the time.

It arises and passes away repeatedly.

And because you're ignorant of it, you keep on reacting.

If it is pleasant, you react with craving.

If it is unpleasant, you react with aversion.

This is what you are doing all your life.

And you are creating misery after misery for yourself.

You keep on multiplying your misery.

🌷 But look, there is a way to come out of misery, a way to reach the stage where tanhā-nirodhā dukkha-nirodho—craving ceases and therefore misery ceases.

No more dukkha now.

There is a way, there is a practice, there is a technique to do this."

[vipassana international newsletter.June'15]