Sensation, not feeling
Recording 14 of 48
Living in the senses instead of the past
Suffering is caused by thought and allegiance to feeling; events only require right action, which needs looking, not thinking.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 55 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1995
PLACE RECORDED: BOND UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Feelings emotions and sensation, Emotional pain, Love is not a feeling, Eastern and Western teachings, Creativity, Acting without thinking, Mystic mountain, Knowledge vs interpretation, Being alone, Music, Being true to the situation, Raising children, Coldness in spiritual love, Will and willfullness, Love as Knowledge Not Feeling, Morality and ethics, Purpose of life
SUMMARY
The talk opens by asking whether anyone truly wants to suffer. The answer is obvious, yet suffering continues because thought and feeling are still obeyed. Events—losses, shocks—demand action, not rumination. Looking quietly reveals the next move; piling moves together breeds anxiety. Animals demonstrate shock without self-torment; the human habit is to think and so to suffer.
Feelings form a spectrum with boredom at the centre and excitement at one end, depression at the other. What rises must fall. 'Love' as feeling breaks hearts; love as reality is not a feeling. Replace interpretation with sensation: seeing, hearing, tasting. The practice is immediate: enter the place called me, an absence of thought and feeling that is always present.
13 - Everything happens in the human brain
