1st Edition
The Definition, Practice, and Psychology of Vedanā Knowing How It Feels
Introduction – Vedana: What Is in a ‘Feeling?’
John Peacock and Martine Batchelor
1. Hedonic Hotspots, Hedonic Potholes: Vedana Revisited
Akincano M. Weber
2. Defining Vedana: Through the Looking Glass
Jayarava Attwood
3. Why Be Mindful of Feelings?
Bhikkhu Analayo
4. Vedana or Feeling Tone: A Practical and Contemporary Meditative Exploration
Martine Batchelor
5. The ‘Sensation of Doubt’ in East Asian Zen Buddhism and Some Parallels with Pali Accounts of Meditation Practice
Robert E. Buswell Jr
6. Feelings Bound and Freed: Wandering and Wonder on Buddhist Pathways
Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma)
7. Vedana and the Wisdom of Impermanence: We are Precipitants within the Experiments of the Universe
Paul R. Fleischman
8. Feeling is Believing: The Convergence of Buddhist Theory and Modern Scientific Evidence Supporting How Self Is Formed and Perpetuated Through Feeling Tone (Vedana)
Judson A. Brewer
9. Serious Illness, Overwhelmingly Unpleasant Feeling Tone of Life, and How Even Incipient Mindfulness Training May Sometimes Help
Paul Grossman
10. Vedana of Bias: Latent Likes and Dislikes Fuelling Barriers to Human Connection
Anurag Gupta
11. Vedana, Ethics and Character: A Prolegomena
John Peacock
Biography
John Peacock is a meditation teacher, scholar, and retired co-director of the master’s degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at the University of Oxford, UK.
Martine Batchelor is a former Buddhist nun, a meditation teacher, and author of a number of works on Buddhism. She is based in France.
