“The Pãli term for “feeling” is vedanã, derived from the verb vedeti, which means both “to feel” and “to know”.1 In its usage in the discourses, vedanã comprises both bodily and mental feelings.2 Vedanã does not include “emotion” in its range of meaning.3
Although emotions arise depending on the initial input provided by feeling, they are more complex mental phenomena than bare feeling itself and are therefore rather the domain of the next satipatthãna, contemplation of states of mind.”—Analayo