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Originally Posted by The Cloud  To have good emotions, you have to have bad ones. There's nothing wrong with depression, because it balances happiness. There is nothing wrong with any emotion. What becomes wrong is when I tell myself that I shouldn't be feeling a certain way. Once I stop accepting what I'm feeling, that is when pain turns into suffering. |
You know, The Cloud, I agree with you that there's nothing wrong with any emotion, and completely concur with you about resistance turning pain into suffering. And I don't think you have to have bad-feeling emotions to have good-feeling ones. It's not a requirement, and feeling good doesn't need to be balanced by feeling bad. It may be helpful in pointing the way, but you can feel good on purpose all the time, if you're willing to, in my experience. I believe Infinite Joy is our natural state. Which is not to say that bad-feeling emotions are wrong -- just that if you choose to, you can feel good any time you want to, even in circumstances that we're taught are "bad." That's kind a moot point if you don't have a preference, though.
