The way I think about this is that emotions contain both wisdom and delusion, and by experiencing them without clinging on, we can integrate their wisdom and let go of the delusion.
The way I think about this is that emotions contain both wisdom and delusion, and by experiencing them without clinging on, we can integrate their wisdom and let go of the delusion.
Besides, our emotions are not the problem in and of themselves. They are useful biological communicators that have evolved with us over millennia to help us survive. It’s getting stuck in our emotions where the problems can arise. The goal, then, is to facilitate how emotions move through you. Mental wholeness is having the inner capacity and resou
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