This week we’re going to be meditating on the feeling-tone of sensations. Referred to as vedanā in Buddhist texts and valence or hedonic tone in psychology, it can be separated out from the phenomenal experience that gives rise to it. This has some major benefits. Learning to calmly observe and disidentify (disembed) from the feeling-tone of sensations is a crucial skill in developing equanimity, and with a bit of persistance this can be directly observed in the practice we’ll be doing today. The perceptual clarity required for awakening directly depends on this capacity to remain equanimous.
The practice this week will be a longer single meditation with a concentration part at the beginning to settle and focus the mind and will also a ‘level 2’ part for the more advanced meditators among us.
