All the teachings of the Buddha demonstrate how to attain freedom by reducing habitual reactivity. The insight teaching of vedanā offers one of the most direct methods for achieving this freedom. There is no exact English equivalent for vedanā. It is the unavoidable subconscious process that assigns a feeling of pleasure or distress to phenomena as they enter consciousness. When we accept these feelings as truth, we become trapped in habitual reactivity. During this retreat, we will investigate the profound freedom that arises when we recognise vedanā as vedanā.
