Feelings born of mind contact, and follow thoughts settling in mind contact. Probably the last and hardest to let go of.
"But when a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, which things cease first: bodily fabrications, verbal fabrications, or mental fabrications?"
"When a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, friend Visakha, verbal fabrications cease first, then bodily fabrications, then mental fabrications."
....directed thought & evaluation are verbal fabrications. Perceptions & feelings are mental; these are things tied up with the mind.
Feelings born of mind contact, and follow thoughts settling in mind contact. Probably the last and hardest to let go of.
"But when a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, which things cease first: bodily fabrications, verbal fabrications, or mental fabrications?"
"When a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, friend Visakha, verbal fabrications cease first, then bodily fabrications, then mental fabrications."
....directed thought & evaluation are verbal fabrications. Perceptions & feelings are mental; these are things tied up with the mind.
Let the mind appreciate your tea and allow the mind to learn with you about this idea of separating pleasure and comment. The thing is not really to harm yourself from reducing pleasure but to learn what pleasure is, if you don't know you will come back desesperately to pleasure in a more unbalanced way. It should be a learnt lesson from your experience about this tea. It takes time to understand different kinds of pleasure and their nature but if you don't try it you never know. Best to be fed up rather than excited to be fed up.
In seeing, only seeing.
In smelling, only smelling.
In tasting, only tasting.
In feeling, only feeling.
Watch yourself in this way from the moment you wake up to the moment you finish the tea, and perceive the relinquishment that you feel from this activity: all in a detached/equanimous manner.
The best way I think is to atomize the steps involve.
One can start like this.
Experiment - 1 Tasting first sip.
In the act of holding cup - See the intention and the act.
In touching rim of cup with lips -See the intention and the act
In first sip of tea - See the mind and the act
In touching the tea with tongue -Stop in midway and see the feeling and action of tongue, lining of mouth
In holding tea on the tongue - try to see the action and feeling of pleasant sensation.
Experiment - 2 Tasting second sip
Can you stop at first sip and Investigate state of mind? Do follow the steps for the 2 sip. And so on.
I would like to see results of this experiment.Try to relate principles of Dhamma with experiment confine to above links only.I would like to advise to try this after a short session of Bawana for more effective results.