Guest guest Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 dear all, some ramblings regarding emotions... I have come across some beautiful and very insightful writings by osho, and today I was reading a part where he speacks of emotions, how staying aware and alert within them will transform the energy that wants to erupt. to neither suppress it nor express it, but to remain alert within it... it is somethign I find related with the safeties, related to the way I try to bring them to my life, as it requires surrender, trust, a let go of fear, pure unconditional love... this I've been trying to explore, yet it is so much more easily said and understood with the mind as a concept then done, when in the midst of a situation... I am encountering a difficulty in really doing that, not suppress and not express... the actual doing of it slips from me. I often find myself feeling as if I have managed, yet only to fall for it minutes, hours, days later, and discovering that no, the issue is not transformed, resentment has still built inside of me... am I missing something? or is it something that builds momentum as the doing deepens? because maybe in a later moment I may perceve the situation in a different light and again bring emotions (fear, worry, anxiety, anger, whatever the situation calls) to what I was perceving more balancedly before, does it mean all I have done is suppress? how can I know that feeling of peace was authentic while it lasted? I feel it sometimes to be like the swinging of a pendulum, going back and forth, touching the center for a brief moment, and always moving closer, as the movement becomes slower, and finally stillness is reached... this gives me comfort... because sometimes I feel there is some progress, gradually it does become easyer to let love, trust, surreder, alertness, fill me and be... and so it becomes easyer to ride the pendulum I'd love to hear your thoughts.. love... lucia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Hi Lucia, I am flying through the posts so I am replying probably with too much haste to your post...lol! " to neither supress or express but to remain alert within it " Perhaps he is talking about being the observer of the emotion.... as the observer you do not partake of the expression and you do not partake of supression either. There have been times when the obseerver has watched " myself " have a freak attack full of emotion. So while my actual behaviour was not ok I somhow got to be detatched from it and I was able to deal with the concequences of it in a different way. I have observed the ego do her thing but I did not attach to her doings.... I have actually practiced this a fair bit and it has brought about about change to the expression and supression of emotion in me and my ego knows that I am not impressed any more with her shinanigans for the most part...lol! If I had more time I could find better words and maybe I am misundrstanding what you wrote Lucia... if so I will write again or maybe I should not...lol! What do you think of the observer idea? love to you, Julia. , " lari.lu " <lari.lu wrote: > > dear all, > some ramblings regarding emotions... > I have come across some beautiful and very insightful writings by osho, and today I was reading a part where he speacks of emotions, how staying aware and alert within them will transform the energy that wants to erupt. > > to neither suppress it nor express it, but to remain alert within it... > > it is somethign I find related with the safeties, related to the way I try to bring them to my life, as it requires surrender, trust, a let go of fear, pure unconditional love... > > this I've been trying to explore, yet it is so much more easily said and understood with the mind as a concept then done, when in the midst of a situation... > > I am encountering a difficulty in really doing that, not suppress and not express... the actual doing of it slips from me. > I often find myself feeling as if I have managed, yet only to fall for it minutes, hours, days later, and discovering that no, the issue is not transformed, resentment has still built inside of me... > > am I missing something? or is it something that builds momentum as the doing deepens? > > because maybe in a later moment I may perceve the situation in a different light and again bring emotions (fear, worry, anxiety, anger, whatever the situation calls) to what I was perceving more balancedly before, does it mean all I have done is suppress? > > how can I know that feeling of peace was authentic while it lasted? > > I feel it sometimes to be like the swinging of a pendulum, going back and forth, touching the center for a brief moment, and always moving closer, as the movement becomes slower, and finally stillness is reached... this gives me comfort... because sometimes I feel there is some progress, gradually it does become easyer to let love, trust, surreder, alertness, fill me and be... and so it becomes easyer to ride the pendulum > > I'd love to hear your thoughts.. > love... > lucia > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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