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Originally Posted by duckyfAL
I read you sometimes and seems you know a lot of self knewledge something i leak, can you explain more about this? how to focus in our emotions while we are tilted/ansieoxus or w/e ? i find it really hard to doo.
Thanks.
We can look at this clearly but only when we have understood the description of what I write below is not the actual thing. The word 'stress' for example is not the actual manifestation of stress. Or, like above, an inability to make a rational decision (quitting when down) is not the actual happening of this.
So the description of an emotional response is not the actual thing. In fact, the label, the word, is never the actual thing associated to it.
Now, one can look at stress and these emotional responses through language and description. It can all be very clever. You can read many books and articles about it. But one has to ask does this knowledge (of stress, tilt, being irrational etc.) actually help to end the response at the time of it occurring in a complete and direct manner?
For example, when one is feeling stressed, does noticing and simply labeling, "I'm feeling stressed" do away with the problem of stress altogether?
If it does not, let's do away with that approach.
Having gone into this, can you see that intellectually approaching the issue here you are only ever approximating it by labeling it in some manner. And you're never quite meeting the issue as it
actually is.
Another way to put this is: if one looks and tries to analyse the situation ("I am feeling this because...") can you see how this is limited?
The analysis carried out by the mind is all built up from knowledge, which is a product of stored-up memory i.e. the past. And in actuality the issue happening is a fresh thing.
So this now leads to the question: Is it possible to look at the internal struggle (thoughts and emotions/physiological responses) and behaviours (typically irrational) going on without knowledge? without the word?
This requires a look into the movement of thought.
To go into this requires an understanding of the mind and meditation, which from my experience is far better understood in a dialogue or in some extensive way than in something short written (like on this forum).
All I can say right now is the possibility to break out of these issues is there. Because they are all self-related. And the possibility to end 'the self' exists.
And it is wonderful.