How Do I Escape The Hell Paradigm?

[Parki]

Leo says that I am activly creating my emotions.
What's the resources to learn more about that?

From what I can see now is that
I am creating my emoitons as how my identity goes,
but the identity is kinda a static thing,
it doesn't seem to be that I am creative my emotions
activly like I make a decion at each moment to feel a certain way.

[Guest username]

You need to see the identity for what it is. Who is it that is creating the emotions? Don't use a logical answer. Keep looking until you've resolved this question on your own with direct consciousness. 

[Bodhi123]

 

 

Edited March 10, 2017 by Bodhi123

[Parki]

@username
em...
is there a way for doing that, but not enlightenment?
 

[Guest username]

@Parki I'd say no. Why avoid enlightenment anyway?

[Parki]

@username
 

Well...
Think about it like this:
You walk down the street and see a yellow lambo
and you are obsessed with it because of how cool it is.
The point is that you not obsessed with the car,
you just want to have a big yellow thing, but you don't know that
so when you saw the lambo you was sure that this is what you want
and you haven't see any other big yellow things,
so you are really sure that the lambo is what you need.
You start chasing money and strugle because you are not good at it.
And after a very long time you finally earned money enough, to you buy the lambo.
Now you are truly happy.
But what if you knew that what you actually want is just a big yellow thing?

Do I want enlightenment?
- Yes.
Does enlightenment is the yellow lambo?
- This is a really good question, because what if it's not?

You don't expect this paradigm shift isn't you?
As far as I know enlightenment is not a paradigm but anyway.

Or you might want a very little thing to happen.
Say you want this 10-storey building to stand 1sm closer to you.
- Do you want a little thing?
- Yes.

But in order to do that need to tear down the whole building and rebuild it again.

[Consept]

@Parki its interesting the way you use the example. But i think its more like what everyone wants really is fulfillment, acceptance, meaning, validation which will give us peace of mind so we go toward whatever we've been brought up to think will give us these. We also have the paradigm that we obtain stuff whether its knowledge or material things. So using your example we might want a lambo but really what we want is validation which we think we'll get from having one, you may feel contentment for a little while but eventually it will fade maybe youll get bored of the car or it will get old or whatever but everything material is by nature temporary. 

So enlightenment is different in that it already its just that you dont realise it, thats the definition of being enlightened. So the journey to it is more of inward cutting away of what you have learnt already to see the truth, as opposed to a adding and chasing so eventually i realise. So when we talk about creating emotions its because you and im guessing most of us, are in the paradigm we were brought up in which is that of being unenlightened 

[Nahm]

The ego is not static, it's plastic. 

[blueTeacup]

I read something in a book by Byron Katie ( her inquiry is worth trying):

"Every thought is already over. This is grace"

 

Feel the emotion. Find the thought behind it. See it for what it is ( just a thought). Accept its existence, don' believe it, let it go. The emotion will subside.