08-25-2021, 03:42 PM
(08-25-2021, 02:52 PM)Ming the Merciful Wrote:(08-25-2021, 09:12 AM)Patrick Wrote: Happiness... that word has too much baggage attached to it.
Yes I think the word tranquility is a nice replacement for how I personally see happiness.
Just as we deduced that using the expression "All Is Well" is not useful because of too much baggage, it seems I will need to stop using the word "happiness" for the same reason.
We are all overlooking something here? It is not one emotion or another. Emotions are just that, emotions. As I said earlier, we must rise above emotions to reach the Higher Self. When we are attached to emotions, (any emotions), then we are allowing ourselves to exist on a lower Emotional Level, and the Lower Emotional State. When we are in deep Meditation, do we feel emotions? If people expect to advance to the transmutation and the next Density, then part of the process of the evolutionary transition would be controlling our Emotional States. Being attached to your emotions is lack of development, because we are still allowing the Gross Mind to be in control.
I don't necessarily think anything is being overlooked, just different perspectives. While you are following the Buddhist doctrine of severing attachments, that does not mean that other people are doing the same.
I myself agree that people become attached to emotions, but disagree that emotions should be controlled. Emotions are part of the glory of living, they should be accepted and allowed to run their natural course. If you "control" your emotions all the time and never let yourself feel anything, then why bother even living?