Ven. Maha Kaccayana said this:
It has not been blatantly obvious to me but is feeling always present at contact?"Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a requisite condition, there is feeling.
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What one feels, one perceives (labels in the mind). What one perceives, one thinks about. What one thinks about, one objectifies.
So what is cognized or perceived is also felt, is this a fair statement? The neutral feelings of neither pleasure or pain are kind of hard to notice it seems.
its really amazing isnt it:)
Further
I dont understand this very well but i think he is saying that whenever there is a Sense Consciousness one can "isolate" feeling as that which is felt, perception as that which is perceived and consciousness as that which cognizes,"Now, when there is the eye, when there are forms, when there is eye-consciousness, it is possible that one will delineate a delineation of contact.[1] When there is a delineation of contact, it is possible that one will delineate a delineation of feeling. When there is a delineation of feeling, it is possible that one will delineate a delineation of perception. When there is a delineation of perception, it is possible that one will delineate a delineation of thinking. When there is a delineation of thinking, it is possible that one will delineate a delineation of being assailed by the perceptions & categories of objectification.
Note:
1.The artificiality of this phrase — "delineate a delineation" — seems intentional. It underlines the artifice implicit in the process by which the mind, in singling out events, turns them into discrete things.
Now Sariputta explains further
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Here As i understand it Sariputta says that Feeling, perception & consciousness having been isolated by delineation of diffrence upon contact, it is impossible to delineate the diffrence among them further, if one was to delineate upon contact as per Ven. Maha Kaccayana's formula having delineated them from one another as contact there is no more difference between them?"Feeling, perception, & consciousness are conjoined, friend, not disjoined. It is not possible, having separated them one from another, to delineate the difference among them. For what one feels, that one perceives. What one perceives, that one cognizes. Therefore these qualities are conjoined, not disjoined, and it is not possible, having separated them one from another, to delineate the difference among them."
Ven. Maha Kaccayana said this later:
So basicly they are manifestations of experiece one way or another and its is only possible to delineate the diffrence upon contact, conceptually they are aspects of the same thing...."When there is no intellect, when there are no ideas, when there is no intellect-consciousness, it is impossible that one will delineate a delineation of contact. When there is no delineation of contact, it is impossible that one will delineate a delineation of feeling. When there is no delineation of feeling, it is impossible that one will delineate a delineation of perception. When there is no delineation of perception, it is impossible that one will delineate a delineation of thinking. When there is no delineation of thinking, it is impossible that one will delineate a delineation of being assailed by the perceptions & categories of objectification." ..
I would appreciate comments, analogies etc