SHACK 4135 EMOTIONS

Courtesy NPR

 Emotions do fluctuate and determine how we feel. There is a debate whether thought causes the rise of emotions or emotions are the prime mover of the thoughts. I feel this is related to the 'illusion of reality'. In previous articles I have endeavoured to depict that reality is actually non existent and that as Einstein said 'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one' and my 'Empty atom' however more so that 'no Identity and nowhere to hang my Hat'

Many articles (blogs) back contain the above. A synopsis is, when we are born we are given a name, not our choice, we can be given a religion or philosophy, a cultural lifestyle and so on and one 'day' we may wake up to the fact 'I have been taught nearly everything I know' I am a parrot, someone else's ideas, inherited ideas and second hand clothing, a cloned mind. Then I may recognise that my reality is based on beliefs which have ben drummed into me and I have accepted as the truth, furthermore I realised I have been brain washed and inculcated. It is really OK to stick with this conditioned mind if that is your choice and inculcation(constant and repetitive ideas so as to instil into the mind as truth and belief) many of these beliefs have been slightly modified and some over the ages and the history of them make it solid and untouchable or alterable, often with punishment for straying from them and producing guilt and shame in many incidences. 

So when many of these beliefs which can form rituals, platforms of safety are exposed as having been conditioned and not by choice, they have been instilled by constant exposure to them with no other choice and this not necessarily by unloving parents or guardians, they merely followed the paths, tracks and conditions that they were handed down and when we are young we have not been given the choice or discrimination due to our early years and the brain awareness to do so.

So our emotions maybe part and parcel of our belief system and it is seen that different belief systems can be at odds with each other as is seen in history and today with wars, ethics, political and religious hate and bias.

The shock at the awakening to all the above may leave one stranded and 'ship wrecked' alienated and stranded on a bare beech or desert with no horizon and in blind panic and severe withdrawal symptoms, I had a mind shift in my early years though a Koan but had a guide to steer me through most of it and when the Sensei went back to Japan and the Sifu passed away I was left to my own devices and when the Empty Atom and Hat hit me it was not a mind shift it was the loss of Identity and I had a severe shock and caused a disconnect and looking for reality which I felt did not exist and eventually realising it was very OK to live in the 'Empty Mind' however now and then a roller coaster can erupt.

I found or realised there was not such thing or platform as Reality and that the reality as such was an unstructured and unfiltered awareness of the true nature of reality. It has no definitions, borders or containers, a sort of no persons land and yet was peaceful and content in feeling and was even without the highs and lows of egoic or inculcated minds.

To sum up it may well be that emotions are brought about by the conditioned inculcated mind and whatever that the minds content have and the beliefs therein will cause and emotions according to the script laid down in the rules of the conditioning. 

SHACK   aka    GEOFF