Thank you fellow travelers

[stu]

@EmptyGlass

It is only the ideas imposed by an immature society by which you measure the experience of death as ‘horrendous’. I don’t mean to use the word ‘immature’ in any pejorative sense; it is only used to set the prevailing background of ignorance regarding suffering, dying and death and the false narratives that give integrity to those lies.

Here’s an interesting discussion on whether arahants experience pleasant/unpleasant vedana.

Do Arahants experience non-neutral mental vedana?

In terms of the effects of the attainment of arahantship over the arising of feelings (vedana): Do Arahants experience the arising of non-neutral (pleasure or displeasure) mental feelings? According to Sallatha Sutta, an Arahant will still experience physical feelings of pleasure and pain, but he will just see those feelings as feelings. What does this mean? If physical pleasure/pain arises, he will not experience a mental pleasure/pain? Or he just feel it without the arising of aversion, c…