10-29-2010, 12:00 AM
"Is feeling coming via bodily sensations and our mind turns them either positive or negative via emotions?"
Definitely feeling comes via the body, the 5 senses. Most commonly it seems is sight and this can even be mental sight alone, but usually physical sight. The body stores everything.
Our mind, intent, beckons our memories. We operate mostly from past experience, are always building on the past. But we also beckon the future (changing past) by our desire for unity. One author I read likened the experience of emotions as the sum total of pleasure or gradients along the way depending on its concentration. That is, a totally concentrated experience of emotion (uninhibited by thoughts) would be bliss, and any dilution (inhibiting thoughts) gradually lessening to the extreme of being almost entirely void of pleasure (hell in the metaphorical sense). But never is this sum potential broken or separated, just thoughts can lessen or dilute pleasure, causing it to fragment. So emotion is basically pure bliss, pure pleasure in its natural state. Thoughts discriminate and this causes the dilution process. The fable of adam and eve is an appropriate analogy here. Before tasting of the tree of knowledge, there was only pure bliss. The tree of knowledge is discriminating thought (dual understanding), thus began the move away from bliss. Not bad just representative of the journey outward and back.
What are your views on this SHM?
Definitely feeling comes via the body, the 5 senses. Most commonly it seems is sight and this can even be mental sight alone, but usually physical sight. The body stores everything.
Our mind, intent, beckons our memories. We operate mostly from past experience, are always building on the past. But we also beckon the future (changing past) by our desire for unity. One author I read likened the experience of emotions as the sum total of pleasure or gradients along the way depending on its concentration. That is, a totally concentrated experience of emotion (uninhibited by thoughts) would be bliss, and any dilution (inhibiting thoughts) gradually lessening to the extreme of being almost entirely void of pleasure (hell in the metaphorical sense). But never is this sum potential broken or separated, just thoughts can lessen or dilute pleasure, causing it to fragment. So emotion is basically pure bliss, pure pleasure in its natural state. Thoughts discriminate and this causes the dilution process. The fable of adam and eve is an appropriate analogy here. Before tasting of the tree of knowledge, there was only pure bliss. The tree of knowledge is discriminating thought (dual understanding), thus began the move away from bliss. Not bad just representative of the journey outward and back.
What are your views on this SHM?