An Enlightened person does not experience emotional triggers

[Sincerity]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

I promise, if you lose your child, you will be reactive too.

There would certainly arise a TON of emotion.

Probably reactivity too, yes. I never said this system is beyond it. Though it has been visibly making progress in that department.

[Joseph Maynor]

When we feel excited and passionate I feel like it is held against us sometimes.  

[Sincerity]

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Plenty of Zen masters famously got triggered into a rage.

Reacted to, or simply experienced and expressed rage?

There’s nothing wrong with rage. I scream at the top of my lungs sometimes.

[Joseph Maynor]

But we can use this emotional problem card against anyone on the path.  This happens all the time.  

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Majed said:

@Leo Gura As somebody who has had a mental disorder, ocd for instance, you guys do not appreciate the heaven you're in if you have normal mental health. Like that's more significant than any enlightenment. Nothing like loss of mental health could teach you what hell is like. 

True. We take mental health for granted when we got it.

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

Reacted to, or simply experienced and expressed rage?

Simply rage? You act like rage is rain from the sky. Who is causing that rage and why? Obviously rage is reactive. You are raging at someone for something.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Joseph Maynor]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Simply rage? You act like rage is rain from the sky. Who is causing that rage and why? Obviously rage is reactive. You are raging at someone for something.

Seems like everyone does this in their own way.  

[Spiritual Warrior]

When i wrote this post Ill admit, I was talking about much less severe blows to the ego, such as an insult, feeling unloved, getting cut off in traffic, etc.  My mind didn't go to the much more extreme experiences of life, such as a loved one dying. I would like to think that when I am enlightened, I will still cry when my wife or children pass on. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Spiritual Warrior

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Enlightened "person"?

Presupposes there is a person there to gain "enlightenment"... great paradox

Edited 53 minutes ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Terell Kirby]

You can take stock of how your mind is constructing your emotions while still be subjected to them. Same with physical pain and illness.

Just because it’s all imaginary doesn’t mean it isn’t real. We’re imagining emotions are real and the physiological sensations behind them.

[Eskilon]

28 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Enlightened "person"?

Presupposes there is a person there to gain "enlightenment"... great paradox

Clever girl as always.

But what if we replace enlightened person with elightened being? Now I want to see u getting your way around that 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

14 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

Clever girl as always.

But what if we replace enlightened person with elightened being? Now I want to see u getting your way around that 

Oh! He wants to play! I'll take the above and serve you one better:

Is enlightenment something a person acquires, or is it the recognition of something that was never absent?