The Law of Dependent Origination

There's a technique that I've used to help cut through this particular identification with pleasant and can be applied to unpleasant as well. It's by using a more comprehensive note of what's happening. At one point, this was now quite a few years ago, but it's very vivid in my mind. So I started noting contact, pleasant. Seeing more clearly that it was the contact with the object that gave rise to the pleasant feeling. And of course, this is part of the Buddhist teaching on the law of dependent origination.