A meditation master, Sakyong Mipham, explains: Discursive thoughts lead to emotions—irritation, anxiety, passion, aggression, jealousy, pride, greed—which lead to suffering…. We begin to see that we have to work with these intense emotions because if we don’t, they’ll grow. Once they grow, we act on them. When we act on them, they create our environment.1 These kinds of emotions give us no rest. When we can’t rest in the present moment, and we can’t be satisfied, we conduct our life aggressively, always looking for that which will satisfy. We employ jealousy, competition, fixation, and
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