--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
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> Yon and Steve:
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> Awareness of habits have not helped me so far as far as emotions concerns. I
> also consider more natural to be just as we are.
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> We talk about non discrimination or going beyond duality but as soon the
> negative emotions of irritation, anger, aggression, annoyance....appear in
> one we think that by the recitation of a name or the awareness of the
> breathing, walking meditation....will help that to be dissolved. And
> perhaps that is so for the moment.  But not in the long run my experience
> is that we thought to be dissolved it wasn't but submerged into the store
> consciousness.  Consequently after a while that and comes back with a
> greater strenght. Â
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> There is something that is called "passive aggression"Â and it comes out
> when those unwelcome emotions arise in one and one tries to dissolve them.Â
> I've learnt through the relationship I have with my boyfriend .
> who happens not to be a practitioner to relax and be myself 100%..Â
> Consequently we have moments of great intensity in all the ways. And it's
> healthy and very lively and very real for being oneselves.  Â
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> I consider that if nature gave us all that bunch of emotions in us may have
> been for something. Nature is wise.Â
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> To me the most important thing is to be oneselves. There are flowers of all
> kinds, colors, smells, symetries....and all are beautiful just as they are.Â
> The carnation doesn't want to be a rose and the rose doesn't want to be a
> carnation. The carnation doesn't get angry with the rose because the rose
> has thorns. They don't know what is discrimination or duality about.
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> Mayka
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> Hi Mayka. Thank you for your comments. I am sorry it doesn't work for you. It
> certainly does work for me. Here are some comments by your mentor, Thich Nhat
> Hanh: "The Buddha said that in the depth of our store consciousness,
> alayavijnana, there are all kinds of positive and negative seeds--seeds of
> anger, delusion, and fear, and seeds of understanding, compassion, and
> forgiveness. Many of these seeds have been transmitted to us by our
> ancestors. We should learn to recognize every one of these seeds in us in
> order to practice diligence. If it is a negative seed, the seed of an
> affliction like anger, fear, jealousy, or discrimination, we should refrain
> from allowing it to be watered in our daily life. Every time such a seed is
> watered, it will manifest on the upper level of our consciousness, and we
> will suffer and make the people we love suffer at the same time. The practice
> is to refrain from watering the negative seeds in us." -The Heart of The
> Buddha's Teaching
So you see, Mayka, we shouldn't water every flower! Of course, you have a
perfect right to disagree with both me and TNH.
Steve
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