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How To Command And Master Your Emotions
DaltheJigsaw
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Emotions are lifetime companions. We cannot get rid of them. As long as we’re alive, feelings will be there to accompany our actions or even inactions. Traditional knowledge tells us we are slaves of our emotions. Emotions make our day. They decide whether we get up in a good mood in the morning or in good spirits when we get in bed at night. Some people even give their emotions the authority to mold their destiny.
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Perhaps as human Buddhism is the natural process realizing you are emotion ... you are desire , you are love , you are anger and as one awaken to this process , one will no longer hold on to the mind .......because holding on to the mind leads to suffering ......one will travel with the mind without filling or holding on to the mind and as he travel further into this path , all emotion will gradually and naturally forgotten .....and further travel into a state without condition , into the original state of nothingness - The Buddha
A fellow in my meditation group claims that he can switch his anger on and off.
He uses it as a tool for weight lifting.
Anger "on" - lift - anger "off".
It is true, you can activate various emotions internally. Bringing forth love and compassion has been a life-saver for me at times. My spontaneous emotions tend not to be very strong, I almost invariably wake up in a mood of acceptance and a small pleasure -- so different people are born with different challenges in this regard.
The Buddha is not nothingness. I really think you need to find another more appropriate term.
There is no 'original state of 'nothingness.
Could you please point to any Buddhist teaching that speaks of Nothingness?
To what literature or teaching, are you referring specifically?
The Buddha was emotional. of course he was, or else he would not have continued to reproach or praise, be pleased or displeased. You need emotions for that. If he had abandoned all emotions, he would have been a robotic zombie.
What the Buddha learnt - and taught - was detachment from unhealthy conditions or states.
But he never said to abandon and shed all emotions, or even that it was the right thing to do.
Emotions are hormonal actions based on thoughts. As we have control over our thoughts, we also have control over our emotions. Some emotions like grief and sadness are fine if we don't attach to them. Joy is another emotion, and there's nothing wrong w/ that, just don't expect it to last. If someone's emotions are running their life, then they don't have a life.
Buddhist practice is,at it's core, based on sitting meditation, the precepts, the eightfold path, and the Three Jewels. That's all anyone needs, and we should look at our opinions as nothing but ego which leads us to suffering. Even saying nothingness is conceptual, and not authentic. It's a word that traps things. Life, reality, mind, whatever you want to call it, is as it is, and if we begin to conceptualize it we are far from the path. Stay in the moment and all things will be true. Keep thinking about things, and welcome to suffering unending.
Yup. Pretty much my line of thinking.