Just thought I’d throw this out there since it has been a subject of several recent conversations among Infinite Smile Sangha members:
Feelings occur when the mind interprets the physical energetic manifestations within the body. As an example, a woman on her cell phone in line at the local café bumped the stroller in which I had packed my daughter, causing my freshly made latte to spill down my pants. For those who haven’t experienced this, hot espresso drinks spilled down our pants will bring on intense and immediate feelings of discomfort. Emotions register themselves in the mind in the same way, except that rather than merely having a physical component to them, they incorporate psychological and energetic variations as well. The latte that spilled down my pants, for example, briefly carried judgment and blame with it, such as: Did that woman have to be so careless? Did that latte have to be the temperature of lava? Luckily, meditation practice can help lessen the intensity of situations like these.
