Buddhism and Emotions

[LastLegend]

Hello,

I am wondering if there are Buddhist sutras or texts that discuss emotions in-depth? Anything about emotions.


Thanks

[muni]

Hi Lastlegend,

Very important topic, thanks to bring it here.
Some traditions are putting attention on destructive emotions while actually all emotions are/ or turn in/ colours of our painful movie, creating lots of suffering.

http://viewonbuddhism.org/delusion_introduction.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some quotes:

For aeons, almost everything we think and feel, all our interpretations have been rooted in hope and fear, which in turn, have bound our minds up in turbulent emotions, constraining them to such a degree that we no longer have any control over them. That is why, according to the shravakayana teachings, we need to tame the mind, or from the bodhisattvayana point of view train it to become useful, or from the vajrayana perspective recognize mind.

Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) – The Four Seals of Dharma
If you cannot accept that all compounded or fabricated things are impermanent, if you believe that there is some essential substance or concept that is permanent, then you are not a Buddhist.
If you cannot accept that all emotions are pain, if you believe that actually some emotions are purely pleasurable, then you are not a Buddhist.
If you cannot accept that all phenomena are illusory and empty, if you believe that certain things do exist inherently, then you are not a Buddhist.
And if you think that enlightenment exists within the spheres of time, space and power, then you are not a Buddhist.
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

http://vajratool.wordpress.com/2011/01/ ... -rinpoche/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I am sure there is a lot more.

Selfless love-compassion, is not an emotion.

[Mkoll]

One example is that the destruction of anger is praised.

As she was standing to one side, a devata recited this verse to the Blessed One:
Having killed what do you sleep in ease? Having killed what do you not grieve? Of the slaying of what one thing does Gotama approve?

[The Buddha:]
Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger — with its honeyed crest & poison root — for having killed it you do not grieve.