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Originally Posted by z1freeride  Yes, I agree it's not the movie (external events) but the person. This may seem like semantics or whatever but it seems to me that you didn't choose to be excited. You choose a different perspective which you knew would generate excitement. |
Yes. People talk about controlling their emotions, but I look at it more as
guiding them. That is, thinking thoughts that feel good when I think them. I'm experienced enough to have a pretty good sense of what shade of feeling good (e.g., excitement, peace, joy, love, etc.) a particular way of thinking and being is going to get me to. It might get me to something better than I can conceive of in a particular moment. But the emotion-shade-goal is something I trust in as a likely destination; my focus is more on the thoughts and way of being itself. So, yes, I think you're right that it's the thinking and the being (the Path) that are my focus, rather than an emotion-goal -- usually.