Happiness... impossible or inevitable

[Ming the Merciful]

...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 see this as controlling my emotions. I see it as just detachment from my emotions. I am the observer, but the emotion is not to be controlled, all emotions are always valid. It's just that I understand controlling my emotions as repressing them.

So for me detachment does not involve control, but rather it involves acceptance and realizing that I am not my emotions, I am that which perceives the emotions.

According to Hindu/Buddhist Philosophy, detachment, (controlling), the emotions is important because they drag us back to the Lower Gross State. When we are in Higher Consciousness, emotions disappear and become transparent. Emotions also brings us to physical attachment, and the need to be attached to the Physical World. This is why the teachers in Hinduism and Buddhism insist on austerity, to stop emotional attachment. Not that I am saying that everybody should give up their Worldly possessions. Although if we look realistically, how many of your possessions are you attached to emotionally?