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Vedanā or Feeling Tone: A Practical and Contemporary Meditative Exploration
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This paper will attempt to establish a framework for the term vedanā. Then it will present the range of the different feeling tones: pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. It will point out that ‘neutral’ feeling tone can be defined in different ways as either non-existing, indeterminate, indifference or the beginning of equanimity. Following this, vedanā will be discussed in the context of the five nāma factors: contact, feeling-tone, perception, intention and attention. This paper will suggest that mindfulness can be of benefit because it possibly gives rise to what is referred to in the early Pāli texts as ‘unwordly pleasant’ feeling tones. The paper concludes by making a connection between the practice of mindfulness of feeling-tones and the cultivation of the ethical precepts as an antidote to unskilful reactive patterns that arise in relation to vedana.
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Subtlety is not a defining feature of vedanā.
“Nor is subtlety a defining fea ture of vedanā , as Martine Batchelor suggests when she writes that the tendency to translate feeling 'tone' or hedonic 'tone' indicates vedanā 'is not a full blown feeling like the emotion of anger' (Batchelor 2018, 56).”
From Do Buddhists Have Emotions? The Mysterious Case of Vedanā (2025) · cites this paper as Batchelor 2018, 56
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Metadata
- Authors
- Batchelor, M.
- Affiliations
- Independent Scholar
- Corresponding author
- Batchelor, Martine
- Venue
- Contemporary Buddhism
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-01-02
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 54-68
- ISSN
- 1463-9947 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-7953
- OpenAlex
- W2795424819
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 14.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Contemporary Buddhism (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Keywords
- vedanā, Pali terminology, equanimity, Buddhist meditation
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