Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Feelings and emotions

 There are a multitude of emotions, but only three   
                           feelings.
There are just three feelings : the pleasant one, the unpleasant one, and the neutral one. This is the Buddhist understanding and I verified this fact directly during the time when I used to practise meditation. In the past, some moral theorists believed that the neutral feeling is only an equal mixture of both pleasant and unpleasant feelings, so that the net effect is zero. But meditational awareness disproves this assumption.
The importance of feelings is that they help give rise to emotions, that is, the bases of all emotions are the three feelings.
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10 comments:

  1. emotions a great word,feelings a normal one!!!

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  2. All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

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  3. Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

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  4. Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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  5. At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

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  6. enough of emotions now feelings.......

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  7. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

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  8. God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

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  9. thank you brainy quotes for those quotes

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