Enjoying with senses vs feelings

I was just about to quote part of that same quotation, @Shashank!:

by thus deactivating both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ feelings, and therefore activating the felicitous/ innocuous feelings (happiness, delight, joie de vivre, bonhomie and so on), then with this freed-up affective energy maximised, in conjunction with sensuousness (delectation, enjoyment, appreciation, relish, zest, gusto and so on), the ensuing sense of amazement, marvel and wonder can result in apperceptiveness (unmediated perception).

Just since increasing felicitous feelings, sensuality and attentiveness feed back to each other, I quickly responded assuming that @FrankN was not asking about using the senses in order to then enjoy and appreciate, but as part of that feedback that should always begin by minimizing good and bad feelings and releasing that affective energy.

Now that I read more carefully, it is possible that he was indeed asking about it. If that’s the case, @FrankN, better pay attention to what others have answered and to Richard’s words than to my quick and concise answers.

But as you may find on the forum that, indeed, I tend to use that technique (paying attention to the senses as an entry point to decrease the good and bad feelings and to increase the felicitous feeling), it is good to clarify that my feedback/inertia between felicitous feelings-attentiveness-sensuousness is quite strong and relatively constant, and that my attention to the senses functions more as a reminiscence tool of the many EEs and PCEs I have had.

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