Working With Afflictive Emotions

The last step in working with afflictive emotions is the most difficult, and it's also the most liberating. It brings us from the level of the relative truth or the content to the more ultimate level of seeing its emptiness. We are often acting on them - they become the motivating force for many of our actions. So we want to know, is this action for good or for harm in the world? Really notice the difference when an emotion, any emotion, arises. Notice the difference between our usual mode of relating to them and expressing that relationship.