Contaminated feelings is a big issue when we focus on mind.
Contaminated - the word itself says this is not good. We do not eat contaminated food, we do not want our home to be contaminated - why should we tolerate our feelings to be contaminated?
The difference between contaminated feelings and pure feelings is that contamination affects the feeling mechanism so the result is strange. We like bad things and dislike good things, for example. Another fault is to believe feelings to be eternal, strong and trustworthy in themselves.
We can never avoid feelings. We have to accept that our experience of reality is sorted into the three categories of good, neutral and bad.
The best we can do is to purify our feelings so they reflect our ideals. A pure feeling is to feel joy over the success of others. A contaminated feelings is to feel joy over the misfortune of others.
If we try to answer the question: "What is best in this reality, what should I be perfectly happy for?" we are on the right way. But we should watch out for simplified idealism.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Rational relativity 2
One reason for the suffering of being young is the difficulty to relate to reality.
The mental well being is bad among many teenage girls who feel an enormous pressure from family, friends, school and society in general. The image of the perfect young woman is shown on signposts, in magazines, in movies and television and almost everywhere else.
At the same time, there is a systematic discrimination of women in many societies.
For the individual the difficulty is to relate to all these diverse and strong impulses.
If there is a hang-up in any of these aspects the suffering can be great.
To avoid this, the general principle for rational relativity is not to relate to "me" but to the "good for all". If the individual can ask: "What is good for all in this particular situation?" the pressure is transferred from "me".
The answer to the question is normally that the individual has a role that is quite acceptable in every situation. All situations are certainly not acceptable, but also the way out of a difficult dilemma can be acceptable.
The mental well being is bad among many teenage girls who feel an enormous pressure from family, friends, school and society in general. The image of the perfect young woman is shown on signposts, in magazines, in movies and television and almost everywhere else.
At the same time, there is a systematic discrimination of women in many societies.
For the individual the difficulty is to relate to all these diverse and strong impulses.
If there is a hang-up in any of these aspects the suffering can be great.
To avoid this, the general principle for rational relativity is not to relate to "me" but to the "good for all". If the individual can ask: "What is good for all in this particular situation?" the pressure is transferred from "me".
The answer to the question is normally that the individual has a role that is quite acceptable in every situation. All situations are certainly not acceptable, but also the way out of a difficult dilemma can be acceptable.
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