DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS – DIALOGUE WITH DALAI LAMA
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Destructive emotions
- Three levels of Consciousness- Ocean with different levels of depths
- Gross – Visible waves in a sea
- Subtle – Introspective faculty with which mind examines its own nature.
- Very Subtle – Without any coloration from mental constructs (no conditioning) or deep waves in sea. Luminous or the ‘Mind of Buddhahood’.
Emotion – comes from Latin root emovere – something that sets mind in motion, whether towards harmful, neutral or positive action.
- How to observe destructive and constructive emotions. (84000 negative emotions) Five categories
- Hatred
- Desire
- Confusion
- Pride
- Jealousy
- 4 ways to control negative emotions
- Antidote
It implies emotion of hatred can have antidote of Love. Jealousy can have antidote of ‘rejoice in others qualities’ - Pride – try to appreciate others achievements and open our eyes to our own defects to cultivate humility.
- Meditation – Emptiness – Emotions are not solid. They can vanish like clouds against sun.
- Practice of using and transforming the emotions as a means of enhancing one’s spiritual practice.
- Antidote
- Sensitivity towards other people emotions. One level of sensitivity – feel a hair in the palm of one’s hand vs another level of Sensitivity – feeling of hair in the eye.
Consciousness
‘In the beginning nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes’