The Joyful Ones
Wouldn't it be great if you could live on logical choices and at the same time listen to your emotions to your heart's content? That is not impossible and many people in fact live like that. They are often joyful people, full of discernment and in harmony in their material and spiritual lives. These people can find joy in any environment, no matter what their jobs are, whatever their financial situation are, pressured to study, be in a family with problems, married to a troublesome husband/wife or raising difficult children.
They are mostly love giving and compassionate persons. They are full of self-love, first in love with themselves other than anything else. For a heart full of love-energy cannot be hurt, cannot be soiled nor be frustrated.
Understanding the workings of the heart, giving discipline to the emotions, there arises wisdom (prajña in Sanskrit), as much as discipline to the mind gives rise to intellect and knowledge (jñana in Sanskrit). With knowledge based on wisdom, one will be able to use the intellect to discern when to please the mind or the heart.
No comments:
Post a Comment