@being_frank_yang: What are emotions? emotions are physical sensations times thought and beliefs about the sensations. see the Buddha never made a distinction between emotions and thoughts they are both impersonal sensations no different from sight sound, smell, taste, or the weather. This means that the so-called self or any of the emotions it experiences cannot be found located or pinned down just as the weather cannot be located as something inherently independently and unchangingly existing apart from the ever changing phenomenas of clouds, lightning, wind, rain. There are no nouns in Reality only verbs some verbs are simply moving slower than others there are no separate verbs either, just one movement of unfoldment. Once body sensations and their labels and stories are taken apart it is clearly seen that they have nothing to do with one another other than more labels and stories you tell yourself. Don’t believe your thoughts and don't believe your feelings there is not a single thought or feeling that has an intrinsic meaning nor do they point to anything in Reality. Thoughts seem real and convincing because of other thoughts and feelings. everything you believe to be true is a house of card of thoughts about thoughts about thoughts feelings about feelings about feelings, or the combination of thoughts and feelings that are bundled up together to reinforce a feedback loop of feeling pointing to thoughts and thoughts pointing to feelings. This is how the selfing mechanism is created. You are selfing to your own selfing mechanism and every time you're triggered you're reacting to your own reactivity. One can put an end to this mental proliferation before it spirals out of hand by unhooking the dependent arising process of sensations. All that is happening when you feel contracted or wishing Reality to be different than what is already happening is a cluster of sensation hijacking clinging grasping or claiming ownership to other clusters of sensations. This is due to ignorance about the nature of sensations. Sensations can never look at be aware of or know other clusters of sensations all sensations are self-luminous self cognizing and self- liberating. This is why the arrow of attention is an illusion. You can never witness a thought. The thought you think you're witnessing already disappeared: Witnessing a thought is just an image of you watching a thought which is just another thought that is self- cognizing. Even the passage of time is an illusion created by a cluster of sensations you label as the past, which is happening right now gasping onto another cluster of sensations you label the future, which is happening right now and where is this now? you can't locate it either in the midst of this ever flowing flux. So how do you untangle solidified sensations? by letting things be the way they are and all sensations will be self- liberated into vast spaciousness. And when you let go the direction of attention from the the subject to the object both disappear, craving and aversion are relinquished. This is the Do Nothing meditation. Or one can penetrate the solidity by dissolving sensations into emptiness, this is Vipassana. Or apply tantra instead of relinquishing the energy you work with it by transmuting it from negative to positive. Or one can apply meta by giving them unconditional love and compassion. Or apply self- inquiry by looking for the one who is feeling and thinking and see clearly that you've never actually thought a thought or felt a feeling. There is no one here to think thoughts and no one there to feel the feelings. It might seem like you are thinking thoughts or feeling feelings, but all that's happening is the movement of grasping. But even that's an illusion as air cannot grasp air there is nothing to grasp and no one here to do the grasping there is nothing to let go of and no one here to be let go of. Or one can contemplate dependent origination what you are is the intersection of infinite webs on infinite webs of causes and conditio

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