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Pleasant, neutral, or painful sensation—the experience felt on contact. Sometimes translated as “feeling.” Distinct from an emotional state or reaction, it refers to the affective tone of experience, the bare sensation of pleasure, pain, or neutrality before mental responses arise.
Also known as: feeling
Pāli: vedanā
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Perception

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The mental process of recognizing and giving meaning to experience. It marks sensory information by signs, labels, or associations drawn from memory and the field of contact. Perception shapes how one experiences the world. It is the third of the five aggregates.

Also known as: recognition, conception
Pāli: sañña
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ITI 52 Paṭhama vedan sutta - Felt Experiences (First) The three kinds of feelings

The Buddha describes the three felt experiences that are experienced on contact through the sense doors - pleasant, painful, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant.

MN 13 Mahādukkhakkhandha sutta - The Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering Gratification, drawback, and escape wrt feeling

The Buddha explains how to completely comprehend the gratification, drawback, and escape in the case of sensual pleasures, form, and felt experience.

SN 45.11 Paṭhamavihāra sutta - Dwelling (First) Conditions that give rise to feeling

Emerging from seclusion, the Buddha describes dwelling in the meditative state he had experienced immediately after Awakening. He explains that all the mental factors—from wrong view to right collectedness, as well as desire, thought, and perception, whether active or subsided—serve as conditions for feeling, even the attainment of the final goal giving rise to feeling.

ITI 53 Dutiya vedan sutta - Felt Experiences (Second) How to see feeling

The Buddha describes how to see the three felt experiences that are experienced on contact through the sense doors - pleasant, painful, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant.