Regardless of the emotion being experienced — be it desire, anger, pride, jealousy, envy, greed, or whatever — what is really going on is a shift in attention. The mind is expressing itself in a different way. Nothing implicitly requires one to presume that this emotion has any reality in and of itself… It is just that the mind is expressing itself in a different way than it was a moment ago.
Kalu Rinpoche
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Further quotes from the book Gently Whispered :
- Not feeling totally at the mercy of one’s emotion
- Being aware of thoughts as they arise
- Expressing emotions
- The basic problem
- The path of Mahayana
- Spacious meditation