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Emotions
With mental formations, feeling can be produced in the form of emotion. Emotions of negative valence produce mental displeasure, while positive ones produce pleasure. Displeasure tends to beget negative emotions, and pleasure tends to beget positive emotions.
Emotions form the range of manifestation of all stress. Whatever unhappiness there may be, it is an emotion.
Equanimity
It is possible to experience pleasure and displeasure without the generation of corresponding emotional states. See the simile of the arrow. Though difficult to conceive, displeasure is not inherently problematic, and is only made so when there is a proliferation of mental displeasure in the form of negative emotions.
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Acceptable and Unacceptable Emotions
Acceptable
- Joy
- Excitement
- Contentment
- Amusement
- Pride
- Love
- Gratitude
- Hope
- Awe
- Relief
- Enthusiasm
- Serenity
- Optimism
- Interest
- Peace
- Delight
- Surprise
- Curiosity
- Calmness
Unacceptable
- Sadness
- Anger
- Fear
- Disgust
- Shame
- Guilt
- Envy
- Jealousy
- Frustration
- Anxiety
- Despair
- Disappointment
- Loneliness
- Boredom
- Hurt
- Worry
- Stress
- Embarrassment
- Resentment
- Revulsion
- Contempt
- Horror
- Terror
- Dread
- Panic
- Regret
- Melancholy
- Grief
- Irritation
- Annoyance
- Humiliation
- Distress
- Confusion
- Boredom
- Apathy
- Shock
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Emotions and Their End
Negative emotions are characterized by acute thirst and resultant mental displeasure. Positive emotions are characterized by mild thirst, typically accompanied by mental pleasure. But completely devoid of thirst, no emotion would arise. Positive emotions are when the mind has what it wants, and relishes that experience. But the end of relishing would be even better, simply due to the absence of thirst.
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The Origin of Emotions
Externally, one may feel 5 kinds of threefold sensory feeling. When one feels external displeasure with the underlying tendency of aversion towards displeasure, they also feel a mental displeasure in the form of emotion. Likewise when a person feels pleasure with the underlying tendancy of desrire for pleasure, they also feel a mental pleasure in the form of emotion. Thus we have positive and negative emotions. Now, a person may also feel positive emotions while experiencing external displeasure, and vice versa, and with permutations for netural feelings too. Thus, we have 18 different kinds of feeling.
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Emotion as a Transformation of Valence
Emotion is modeled as an aggregate transformation of discrete valence components, visualized as two coressponding 2d mosaics with each cell a gradient from red to white to green, corresponding to its valence, and its size corresponding to its degree of cognizence. The bottom mosaic represents the feelings that are initially cognized, while the upper represents what is taken up, acquired, and transformed via egoic aquisition into emotions similarly measured in valence. We will see that in an ordinary being both planes would look rather similar, but to an arahant the top plane would invariantly remain blank.
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My Experience
Analyazing all that I remember, I observe two general qualities to all experience — those which are agreeable, and those which are not. A list of those which are agreeable:
Emotions
- Anger
- Jelously
- Resent
- Sorrow
- Lamentation
- Despair
- Suffering
- Pain
- Saddness
- Dejection
- Desolution
- Disgust
- Boredom
- Disturbance
- Longing
- Unrest
- Craving
- Hunger
- Thirst
- Itchiness
- Things that taste bad, and likewise for the other five sensations.
- Dislike
- Discomfort
- Aching
- Hurt
- Disgust
- Hatred
- Agitation
- Irritation
- Heartbreak
- Betrayal
- Anguish
- Dissapointment
- Gloom
- Doom
- Annoyance
- Wishing
- Discomfort
- Hope
And now a list of those which are agreeable:
- Joy
- Prosperity
- Success
- Happiness
- Elation
- Love
- Comfort
- Pleasure
- Peace
- Tranquility
- Excitement
- Thrill
- Fun
- Flow
- Creation
Choices were made with varying degrees of consciousness to reduce or eliminate the disagreeable, and to gain and attain the agreeable. A list of choices made which support these two movements:
- Breaking bad habits
- Fixing sleep schedule
- Sleeping early and waking early
- Meditating
- Eating healthy
- Eating when hungry
- Drinking when thirsty
- Eating junk food when craving
- Learning new skills to kill boredom and make money
- Getting a job
- Indie hacking
- Playing video games
- Listening to music
- Watching videos and movies
- Reading books
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Categorized by level of Stress:
- High
- Anxiety
- Sadness
- Grief
- Anger
- Fear
- Guilt
- Shame
- Envy
- Jealousy
- Resentment
- Hatred
- Despair
- Terror
- Panic
- Agony
- Anguish
- Medium
- Discomfort
- Unease
- Irritation
- Annoyance
- Frustration
- Disappointment
- Worry
- Low ^0f077d
- Contentment
- Satisfaction
- Cheerfulness
- Joy
- Excitement
- Elation
- Rapture
- Bliss
- Equanimity
- Zero (non-affective) ^19ffd2
- Equanimity?
- Unconsciousness
- Nirodha samapatti
- Nibbana
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Undesired
- Agony
- Anger
- Anguish
- Annoyance
- Anxiety
- Aversion (as emotional response)
- Boredom
- Craving (as emotional driver)
- Dejection
- Despair
- Disappointment
- Discomfort / Unease
- Disgust
- Dislike
- Distress / Mental displeasure
- Dread
- Drowsiness / Lethargy
- Dullness
- Envy
- Fear
- Frustration
- Grief
- Guilt
- Hatred
- Heartbreak
- Hunger (mental/emotional)
- Irritation
- Jealousy
- Lamentation
- Longing / Yearning
- Panic
- Remorse
- Resentment
- Restlessness
- Sadness / Sorrow
- Shame
- Sloth / Torpor
- Stress / Dukkha (emotional)
- Suffering
- Terror
- Worry
- (Meta: objection, proliferation of displeasure, reflexive agitation)
Desired
- Benevolence
- Bliss
- Cheerfulness
- Compassion
- Contentment
- Delight
- Ecstasy / Rapture
- Elation
- Enthusiasm / Zeal
- Equanimity (often transcendent)
- Excitement / Joy
- Flow
- Happiness
- Love (as benevolence)
- Motivated
- Peace / Tranquility
- Satisfaction
- Security (noted as subtly afflicted)
- Thrill
- (Meta: “No emotion” — pure equanimity beyond craving)
Related topics (AI recommended)
These classifications connect feeling with stress and happiness. For a particular pattern of emotional escalation, see offense and hatred.