a search for sanity or..........

  • Of emotions

    Posted: July 19, 2008, 11:38 pm by gal africana
    I just started reading Tolle's "The power of now" and had my breath knocked out of me by the following:

    "Emotion literally means disturbance...the word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning "to disturb"

    So at this point I'm going yeah...uh WTF? All emotions are a state of disturbance? If they are...why the hell do we have them? For blimings sake!!! Who thought (haha, thought: the stuff illusions are made of, feature again) us up? We have thoughts...which according to Tolle, beget emotions...which constitute our experiences, which then make up our ego...and our sole purpose on earth is to be awaken to the fact that we are not our thoughts or our ego??????? Brillfu*******iant!

    He goes on to explain that certain states of being are misconstrued as being emotions. Our natural self, higher being/self, as some teachers call it, is in an eternal joyous, peaceful and loving state (A divine state). So joy, peace and love are states of being and have no opposite (don't quite understand the last part about opposites but I do get the natural state of being...I've felt it during and shorty after meditation, before all my pesky thoughts kick in lol ayaiyai!).

    Emotions arise from thoughts of things outside of us (things we do/experience)...our natural state of being arises from within us and is separate from whatever situation we are in.

    And of course the only way to bring about our natural state of being is to be in the NOW!

    hmmmm....I'm a little bamboozeled by all this....

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