Feeling as the Antidote
El sentir como antídoto
A student asks about the role of feelings in dissolving illusion, and the teacher explains how the main mechanism of illusion is avoidance of feeling.
Feeling as the Antidote
A student asks about the role of feelings in dissolving illusion, and the teacher explains how the main mechanism of illusion is avoidance of feeling.
And that's with the feelings, looking at those feelings, that helps with that?
Feeling them, because the main mechanism of illusion is to avoid feeling. In a sense, the antidote, the way to deactivate it, is to just go into the feeling. The feeling that all of the thinking is trying to help you not feel: just feel it. Then all the power of the pull of the narrative, all the resistance, loses its grip. It's all there in service to not feeling.
Fear and pain as the root feelings
By "feeling," I always summarize it as fear and pain. Shame is a form of pain. Worry is a form of fear. This helps you not get too lost in overcomplicating what feeling is. The more complicated a feeling seems, the more it is a sign that it is superficial, emotion-based, story-based.
Is that where sometimes the body sensation, that kind of thing, helps with that?