Transforming negative emotions.

 We are an enlightened potentiality caught in a demonic potentiality.

The three main negative emotions that cause us suffering are desire, aversion and ignorance. We are captured by these three negative emotions (which are said to compound into 84,000 other emotions), based around…’me’. One can use antidotes such as generosity to combat desire, but that is a temporary fix – the desire will come back.

If we truly want to love and have compassion, we must transform these negative emotions: without this, we will live in a loveless, compassionless world. We may have wishful thinking, but that is merely a confusion of potentialities.

84,000 negative emotions to transform. How!? Well, there is only one…ignorance…thank goodness!

We are ignorant of our true nature (enlightened potential). Simply put, we are empty essence – pure uncontaminated intelligent space – crystal clear. At some moment (and now it’s maintained all the time) this essence became attracted to ‘being’, and a duality arose – an “I” was created. Non-meditation became meditation, as an “I” was present. Pure uncontaminated intelligent space started to fill with desire. Once desire was manifested, judgment started, which created aversion/fear, and “This is better than that”.

That is how it all starts, and we merely maintain it!

How to transform this? Know that desire and aversion happen within pure awareness: if it was not for this awareness, these things would not happen. And through recognition of that awareness, being truly empty, we return to crystal clear, pure, uncontaminated, intelligent space…hooray!

 All it takes is recognition,
and the world turns from loveless
to love.

 This is the second half of the equation.
Through love,
we exhaust both good and bad karma.

(Advice from Padmasambhava on good and bad karma to follow!)