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Today's
quotation:
Most relate to the world by
their emotions, which means they know
only the unreality of illusion-- this world of emotion is the world
of
duality, of love and hate, of joy and sorrow. All emotions are
relative
to themselves, and last only as long as the supporting thought is
maintained.
A Spiritual Warrior
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Today's
Meditation:
Our emotions
are very important to us, but it seems pretty clear that
they should not be our guiding lights-- they're far too
fickle, and far too transient. The emotion that I'm
feeling now more than likely won't be the emotion that
I'll be feeling in two hours, yet if I make decisions
based on what I'm feeling now, I'm stuck with the results
of those decisions even when my feelings have changed.
When
we know the world by our emotions, we're no longer able to
see it objectively. I feel crappy right now, so the
world looks crappy. I feel great right now, and the
world looks wonderful. We lose stability and
consistency, two things that are very important to
us. After all, the world is changing constantly, but
it still gives us the seasons every year, and the sun
comes up each morning and sets each evening; people are
consistently born, and they consistently die.
We do
need to respect our emotions and actually feel them if
we're ever going to get to know ourselves as well as we
can. But we also have to remember that many of those
emotions are the results of triggers that were developed
when we were very, very young, and they no longer serve us
in any way any more. I may feel a certain emotion
now simply as a matter of habit, rather than that emotion
being a logical result of a certain situation.
Our
lives are far too important for us to leave them to the
whims of our emotional state. We need to recognize
our emotions for what they are and avoid making important
decisions when they're having their way with us, for they
are not reliable guides for us on this journey of life
that we're in the middle of.
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