emotion

Emotions seem to guide us towards a connective energy that in Eastern traditions has been given the name, "chi." From 20 years of working with horses, I've come to know that energetic tissue that binds each of us to collective mind as implicit to experience. It's always there.

emotions contain both wisdom and delusion, and by experiencing them without clinging on, we can integrate their wisdom and let go of the delusion.

Emotions, in contrast, are words which label behaviours. Anger is an emotion because behaving angrily is a thing. People behave like they’re in love, or are afraid, or any one of other emotional labels. It’s useful to think of emotions as being like colours. Behaviour is infinitely complex, but we have a set of descriptive words applying discrete l... See more

Blaming and complaining are mixtures of genuine grief and defensive anger.