Feelings

Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Have so many feelings and don’t know what to do with them? I’ve been taught to avoid identifying with them or even claim them as my own, just observe the feelings with curiosity from a place of serenity, because it’s the only place from which we can see things clearly. If you find value in these podcast episodes, please show your support through Venmo @TimberHawkeye or at https://www.buddhistbootcamp.com/support or with as little as $1/month through https://Patreon.com/BuddhistBootCamp

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life.
0:17.0	Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:30.0	From feeling lucky to feeling sad, feeling funky and feeling glad,
0:32.0	strong feelings, other people's feelings, from being one of our senses to making no sense at all.
0:38.4	How do we explain feelings and what do we do with all of them?
0:42.3	I am not a visual artist so bear with me as I try to
0:46.2	paint with words a simple picture of how I relate to my feelings. Imagine yourself as a bottle of sparkling water. All the various feelings you can experience in life are the bubbles inside. Some stay at the bottom for a very long time before they rise. Others are close to the surface and a few quickly float to the top and disappear. The bubbles certainly make life interesting and exciting and without them our lives would be flat and dull. But fun as they may be, it's best not to get
1:16.9	attached to any of the bubbles or to hope that some of them last a long time, nor wish that others never surface. They all tend to show up and
1:25.4	disappear with that much warning. Our job is to avoid reacting to every single one,
1:30.8	but it's also crucial that we don't keep feelings bottled up, because if we get agitated, we explode.
1:37.0	So what do we do with all these feelings?
1:39.5	I've been taught to simply observe feelings as they come up without identifying with them. That is to say,
1:46.1	witness the feelings without claiming them as your own. Here's what I mean. You know how there's
1:52.0	often a voice inside your head telling you one thing
1:54.7	while the other half of you says another? Well you are neither one of those two voices.
1:59.7	You are the one watching them argue. The same is true with feelings.
2:04.2	You are not the bubbles.
2:05.9	You are the one watching them come up.
2:08.0	Here's a quick recap from the book
2:10.0	about the difference between feelings and emotions.
2:13.0	If we get attached to something as temporary as a feeling,
2:16.8	it turns into an emotion that can last a lifetime.
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