In Buddhist psychology, feelings are the result of earlier actions. If we feel fine now, we made nice things in the past. If we feel bad, we did bad things long ago.
If we relate our feelings to things happening now or to things we should do in the future, we use feelings in a faulty way. Feelings have no bearing on present and future events.
This means that we might feel bad about good things, and that we might feel good about bad things. In a deeper sense, this have no importance. Sometimes we should act against our feelings and sometimes in accordance with them. Or rather, we should not give them too much of importance. If we can act in accordance with both mind and feelings, that is very nice.
We can learn to do this, and thus avoid to live a life of struggle between mind and feelings.
The first thing we should do is good actions. Eventually this will result in nice feelings. Sometimes good actions are daring and bold, sometimes the daring and bold is just destructive.
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