[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Dignity of Real Emotions

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 13, 2008

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THE DIGNITY OF REAL EMOTIONS

Student: Is resentment an emotion? What are real emotions?

Chogyam Trungpa:  Emotion is supposed to be a fundamental, organic 
process. Resentment may be the vanguard of the emotions, but it is 
not a real emotion, because it relates with the fringe or the edge of 
things. Real emotions are expressions of being and different ways of 
relating with being. For example, if you feel your being is lacking 
something, you create passion. If you feel your being is threatened, 
you create aggression -- and so on. Emotion is connected with a total 
sense of being. The total sense of being feels not quite complete 
enough, so you try to balance that. Real emotions are much more 
dignified than things like resentment, which are at the level of the 
outskirts. The emotions are the real capital rather than the profit.

 From "Giving Birth to Intellect," in ILLUSION'S GAME: The Life and 
Teaching of Naropa. Page 85.

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