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Are we a slave to our emotions?
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The Only Real Emotion You're Not Said to Have
The only real emotion you're supposed to have is desire, but it's also the one emotion you're not supposed to have. But they differentiate two different kinds of desire. There's one called clinging and trying to look internally and meditate and get to nevana. It's that state where you realize what's real and can move beyond it. Yes, desire is a powerful force throughout history. So i've always had one eye on it. I'm glad you mentioned the east,. in the sense that this notion of wanting to free ourselves of emotional responses almost is, of course, a big part of eastern religious ideas.
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