How to Eliminate Various Feelings and Sensations

The feelings and sensations of the body consciousness can only be free from influence after cultivating to the fourth dhyāna; non-Buddhist practitioners can all overcome and eliminate the sensations of the physical body, as long as they possess meditative concentration (samādhi). The feelings of the mind consciousness can only be subdued and eliminated after the elimination of self-view (ātma-dṛṣṭi). The feelings on the five consciousnesses can be eliminated simply by relying on meditative concentration, whereas the feelings of the mind consciousness can only be eliminated by relying on wisdom. The sensations of the five consciousnesses can also be suppressed by the method of diverting attention; diverting attention is also related to meditative concentration—if attention is not on the place of pain, one cannot feel the sensation of pain.

Some dharmas can be resolved through meditative concentration alone, while some dharmas can only be resolved by relying on the wisdom of eliminating self-view and the wisdom of awakening to the true mind through enlightenment; and some dharmas must be resolved through the combination of meditative concentration and wisdom.