Today's Daily Dharma: Relating to Our Emotions

Relating to Our Emotions

When anger arises, or sorrow or love or joy, it is just anger angering, sorrow sorrowing, love loving, joy joying. Different feelings arise and pass, each simply expressing its own nature. The problem arises when we identify with these feelings, or thoughts, or sensations as being self or as belonging to 'me': I’m angry, I'm sad.

—Joseph Goldstein, "If There Is No Self, Who Is Born, Who Dies, Who Meditates?"

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