[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Conflicting Emotions

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 11, 2008

CONFLICTING EMOTIONS

Ego presents a twofold barrier: conflicting emotions and primitive 
beliefs about reality. You might call conflicting emotions 
anti-shunyata, anti-emptiness, because they do not allow or 
experience any space or lubrication to develop things. They are solid 
and definite. It is like the analogy of the pig, the symbol of 
ignorance, which just follows its nose and never sees any direction 
of any kind at all. It just keeps following , constantly guided by 
impulse. And whatever comes in front of its nose, it just consumes it 
and looks for the next one....
         In this case, we are talking about emotions as primitive 
emotions. Take the example of anger, for instance. There is the 
primitive, conflicted quality of anger and there is also the 
energetic quality of the anger, which is quite different. Conflicting 
emotions are those that are purely trying to secure ego's aim and 
object, to fulfill ego's demand. They are based on constantly looking 
for security, maintaining the identity of "I am." Conflicting 
emotions also contain energy, which is the compassionate nature, the 
basic warmth and basic creative process. But somehow in that 
situation of primitive emotions, there is very little generosity of 
letting energy function by itself.


 From "Fruition," in GLIMPSES OF SHUNYATA, page 53.

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