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Emotion is an active action of our soul that is so fundamentally essential for
everbody. From a fetus in the mother’s womb to a newborn baby, everyone knows
how to love, hate or fear. When we grows up, emotion always exists in our mind.
Even if we just sitting quietly doing nothing, though we think that we have nothing
on our mind, indeed, there are a lot of emotional thoughts that are going through
and controlling our mind.
What are those types of emotion: compassion or hatred? Where do they
lead us? How should we love and hate appropriately to be blessed and to achieve
full enlightenment?
Emotion is an different affective state in our conscious mind such as love,
hatred, liking, boredom, anger, desire, wish, hope, respect, contempt, fear... and a
lot of other different states of feelings that we have already experienced in our life.
For example, when we meet someone who is kind, and does a lot of charity
work, we would naturally have respect for the person.
On the contrary, when we meet someone who often speaks inappropriate
language, does bad things, and always is proud of himself, we would naturally
dislike this person.
Or, when we meet a fierce, angry looking person, who speaks rudely,

bahave violently, we would naturally feel fearful of this person.
In other cases, when we meet a person whose intention is to undermine our
country, undermine Buddhism, the feeling of hatred would invade our mind
natrually.
Or in relationship, one would miss their loved ones when they are away….
We are always experiencing these types of emotion like these above
examples daily in our life.
Instead of spending time on walking in the park, or playing game, or
enjoying other entertainment activities... we wanted to even travel long distance to
visit different pagodas and listen to different seminars and lectures about the
Dharma in Buddhism. Because we love and respect the Three Jewels, we refused
to enjoy some entertaiment activities in order to spend more time to understand

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and learn about Buddhism. When we love one thing, naturally, we will hate
another.
There are two aspects of emotion: love and hate. As mentioned above,
when we love and respect the Three Jewels, certainly, we would hate something
else. We feel that these types of entertainment activities are such a waste of time,
hence our action tends towards other things… and in this example, our interest is
about Buddhism. This is when emotion is controlling our mind.
During Spring, Tet (Lunar New Year Holiday), when we came to a temple
and witness all the monks greet and wish each other best things for the new year,
we felt affectionate. This state is yet to be classified as Emotion, but an emotion
will come naturally later. And that is our compassion and respect to these people,
who live a noble religious life. Then, we will like to listen more and more about
the Dharma. Though we don’t know if the preach about the Dharma is interesting
or not, but because of our respect for Buddhism, we still want to listen. We give up

time of enjoying normal and ordinary life style activities to spend more time to
learn more about Buddhism. It is because we believe that we can take refuge to
Buddhism as it can help us understand the Truth and we can live better and be a
better person. And then naturally, happiness (an emotional state) will be in our
mind and spread to everyone else.
Emotion always has two opposite sides, typically: love and hate, hatred and
forgiveness, respect and contempt... One is referred to as an attraction state and
the other is pushing state. The feelings such as love, respect, like, expectation are
attraction states of emotion that drive us towards being close to the others. When
we love someone, we would want to see him and want to be close to him. When
we respect someone, we would want to listen and learn from him. This is the
attraction side of emotion. In contrast, the other opposite state will drive us away
from other people. The emotions such as hatred, boredom, contempt... belongs this
pushing state.
Emotion always exists in our mind, quietly, but it strongly controls our
mind, our behaviours, and therefore, creating the differences in the society.
Without emotion, this world will end, and nothing will exist. We could say that
one of main causes to create this chaotic society, the whirl of life is emotion.
Simply, we like nice and fashionable clothes, and because of this liking, we
want to earn more money to buy these clothes. When we like something, we are
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motivated to do to achieve the goal. Or when we see that the path leading to our
village is so dirty and muddy and we are really annoyed about this. This
“annoyed” feeling strongly motivates us to do the right thing by helping clean up
the road. Sometimes, hatred also helps make us do the right thing, a good deed.
Both “love” and “hate” feelings drive us to do something. Because of
different emotions, causing different behaviours and actions, diversity exists in
life, in society. By now, we must know that we only do something because of

either love or hate emotions. Without these main two types of emotion, we would
not take any actions.
What is the first and basic emotion of an human being? It is the greed to
live and the fear to die. When we are just a fetus in our mother’s womb, this
emotion already controls us. Although we could not recognise our parents right
after being born, the survival instinct always exists in our mind. When we are
hungry or fearful, we always cry, this is a signal to our parent that they should feed
or protect us. The survival instinct is a important motivation, which forces us to do
thing to survive or to maintain our life. Even when we are older, we always have
the desire to live longer, and the fear of dying. This emotion is fundamentally
basic but very intense.
I like to tell you a humorous story:
A man who often went to the church and prayed that he wished to go heaven
when he died. One time when he was praying, God appearred, smiled and softly
said that: "Your wish have come true. You can now follow me to heaven”.
Immediately, he was terrified and responded quickly: “No, I am sorry that I
cannot follow God. I still have my familly, my house, my farm, and my wealth.
Nobody can take care them if I leave so I cannot go to heaven with you. I will
follow you next time”. Since then, he had never prayed the same thing again, as he
was afraid that God may come back and take him to heaven.
Similarly, when someone always faithfully prayed: “Namo Amitabha
Buddha” with sincerity and wanted to be reborn in Buddha’s land. However, when
Amitabha Buddha appearred to take them to that land, they were terrified and
immediately refused to follow Amitabha with many different excuses: their
family, the businesses, etc. In fact, in theory, we want to follow Buddha and be
reborn in heaven, however, in reality, we always have strong desire to live longer
and extremely fear of death. Therefore, when Amitabha Buddha appeared to take
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us to heaven or to Buddha’s land, we know that it is the time to leave everything
behind forever: to die. The emotion of Greed to Live and Fear to Die is always
strong in the mind of any human beings.
Even a genuine Buddhist, who understand clearly the Dhrama, though is
not afraid of death, he/she is still not courageous enough to end their life, when
asked.
This fundamentally basic emotion compels us to do everything to survive
and maintain our lifestyle. And then, karma and human instinct creates
relationship between men and women; get married; and have children to maintain
the human race. The love between a man and a woman is an extremely intense
emotion. Thus, many artists have composed a lot of love poems, love songs. These
songs and poems are very popular. In contrast, there are not many songs and
poems which praise love for family, humanity, environment, world peace and
children.
Only few noble people can overcome this type of basic emotion to write
songs about other different matters in the society, not about the romantic
relationship between men and women.
Until much later I have written a poem
But it is not to praise love
As love is just the image of twilight
Though pleasant but will fall into the darkness of night
As mentioned above, the love relationship between men and women is very
intense, except for same gender relationship i.e. gay or lesbian. This exception also
has its own karma.
A love relationship between a man and a woman has never occurred without
problems. Why? Because the essence of this emotion is selfishness. Asian people
has an closed and private culture of life, so we are quite certain that their love
relationship is selfish. Similarly, although Westerners have an open and relaxed
culture and their relationship can be very easy-going, it is still selfish. Selfishness
will always lead to the unexpected actions such as anger, blame, anxiousness,

anguish, betrayal, jealousy, which are very common in a relationship...
We once met an American man who was divorced. Someone asked him:
Would you get married again? He said that he was afraid of marriage, just a
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thought about it made him feel that he had entered a fiery furnace. He was
exhausted by jealousy, blame, anger, quarrels... and he was very happy to be free
from his marriage. However, one year later, he got married again. We cannot
understand! The love relationship between a man and a woman is always
extremely intense. It makes us tired but it also attracts and motivates us strongly.
Thus, we still can fall in love with someone else again, even though we just have
been freed from it.
Apart from love/romantic relationship, we also have the greed for higher
social status, power, honour and fortune. We need money because money can
make our life better. Money allows us to do anything we want. The love for money
is also an extremely intense emotion. Because of money, we have to strive and
compete to survive. Sometimes we even conspire to kill someone just for a small
of amount of money. Romantic relationship and love for money always make us
exhausted, and more to that, we actually commit so many sins to have them.
After many years of observing and analysing human emotions, some
philosophers had drawn a conclusion that: "All of chaos, disturbance and sins are
derived from human emotions". They concluded: it is very obvious that all
different types of love or relationship will cause tiredness, separation, selfishness,
fights... The like of partying, entertaining, money, power and lust are always the
root causes for all evil acts, and make people lose their principles and morality.
Therefore, throughout many years of the human race history, some philosophers
had often advised that we should terminate all human emotions to achieve a
peaceful life. It means that we do not love or hate , we should have a pure and
clam mind.

Is the above conclusion correct? Actually, it is not! If someone thinks the
above is correct, then he/she is not a true Buddhist. Most of us are confused about
this conclusion. At first, we immediately accepted the above argument to stop
love, stop hate to have a peaceful life… but that is wrong.
In fact, Buddhism has never taught us to terminate all human emotions. A
large number of people have misunderstood the meaning of Emptiness in
Buddhism. Often people thing Emptiness means to feel nothing and to do nothing.
This is the misunderstanding about Buddhism. In fact, Buddhism teaches us about
the the Noble Eightfold Path.

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Those, who just started learning about Buddhism, would not be able to
understand what the Noble Eightfold Path is. The longer they learn and practise
Buddhism, they would understand more about this path. Only when they are
enlightened, they can comprehend completely the Noble Eightfold Path. It is
actually the essence of Buddhism.
We often misunderstand that “Emptiness” in Buddhism means “stop
thinking”. It is totally wrong. It means we must thing rightly. Buddhism never
taught us that we “do not do anything” to “avoid creating bad karma”. Buddha had
taught us that we “should do good things and act rightly” to create blessings and
merits; we must not do bad things, act wrongly, and create bad karma. Buddha
also never taught us that we do not love anybody. Buddha actually taught us that
we “should love or hate rightly”, so that our life will be happy and peaceful, our
blessings would grow day by day, and we would be able to achieve enlightenment.
If our mind is controlled by the wrong emotion, we cannot be freed from the
cycle of birth, life and death. If we do not respect someone, who deserves to have
our respect, we would not have any blessing. If we are not strict with someone
who needs to be disciplined, we also would not have any blessing. For example, if

we met a great teacher who was so exemplary and dedicated his life to build up his
knowledge and to teach students, but we did not show any respect for this person,
then we would not have any bleesing and we always would be a mediocre person.
Similarly, if we disregarded a monk who was virtuous and wise; had the ability
preach Buddhism Dharma; practised meditation diligently; and did a lot to develop
Buddhism, we also would not have blessing, merits and we would not be respected
by others, as the result. If we took any of these disrespectful acts, we would never
be able to achieve high level status in the society, and would not be respected by
others.
Though it is not the same, but the same principle is applied to discipline
someone. If someone behaved badly, but we did not strictly discipline him/her, we
also would not be blessed. For example, if one of our friends, who were
irresponsible for his family, his actions, but because of our friendship with him, we
did not call out his mistakes, and did not advise him to be better, then we would
not be blessed later in life, or even future lives.
Therefore, we must act rightly. If we act wrongly, we would always be in
the cycle of birth, life and death, and never be freed.
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We absolutely have to respect and pay homage to Buddha. We also must
have the absolute respect for true monks. We have to have compassion for all
other fellow Buddhists. We have to support and help those, who are less fortunate.
We have to be strict to teach those who are mean and unkind. However, we have
to be tolerant with them, show our compassion and forgiveness. The right emotion
will make our life better. Through cycle of birth, life and death, we will gradually
achieve the absolute compassion for all beings, no matter in whatever existence
they may be. This is a sign of the enlightenment.
It is a completely wrong thinking that Buddhism advises us to be
emotionless i.e. no love, no hatred. The right emotion will help us be stronger and

be calm. The wrong emotion will make us anxious and worried. Let’s think about
this: whenever we dislike someone, we would keep thinking about this person, the
feeling of hatred keeps staying in our mind, in our heart, we would not be able to
sleep… that means we have the wrong emotion. In contrary, when we like
someone, have compassion for that person, our mind is filled with happiness, we
feel better, stronger, healthier and sleep better… it means we have the right
emotion
A Buddhist visited Phat Quang Pagoda and told us that: "Dear Master, I
love to listen your teaching on the tape records. I cannot sleep well without
listening to it”. This liking is a type of emotion. This emtion helps this Buddhist
sleep well. Indeed, it is certainly the right emotion of love.
However, if someone said that: "Dear Master, I admire and love this singer.
I miss her day and night, so much that I cannot sleep". This love make his mind
unstable and disturbed. It is the wrong type of emotion. This type will take us into
the cycle of birth, life and death.
According to morality principle, the right and basic emotion is “love the
good and hate the evil”. We must act rightly before even thinking about
enlightenment. Again, we must behave and act rightly. Whoever badmouths about
us, we should ignore. Buddha has clearly taught us that "Cease to do evil, learn to
do good deeds, and purify the mind". Buddha distinguished clearly between the
good and the evil. It is not at all ambiguous. Therefore, fundamentally, the first
basic level of emotion is to “love the good and hate the evil”.
The second level of emotion is that we have to respect those, who do good
deeds and have compassion for those who commit sins. We should never hate the
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bad guys. If we have that thought, we are wrong. We must not hate or stay away
from bad people. We SHOULD have compassion for them. Compassion in this
case has a great meaning. It means that even we know about their sins, we should

find a way to help them to turn back, be a better person, and learn to do good
deeds.
The third level of emotion is that we have to be passionate about doing good
deeds, and would never do anything bad.
If we can follow these steps, we will build on the basic and the right
emotion and make us stronger.
Let’s list a few right types of emotion:
To respect elders and to love children.
Children are too young to take care of themselves, so we have to love and
care for them. Elders dedicate their life to work hard to serve the society, so we
have to respect them.
To have filial piety to our parents; to respect our teachers; to love friends,
brothers and sisters.
Many charity organisations usually give presents to high ethical and role
model students to encourage ethical behaviours at school.
To be strict with bad people; to influence and enforce further disciplines
on them to make them better, and do not give in.
Strictness means differently in different context and environment. For
example, in a pagoda, a Master sometimes is strict with his disciples by being
silent towards his disciples, or scolding at some of them. The Master only teaches
the disciples, who are obedient; but he will be silent with those, who are obstinate
and do not listen. These disciples will understand the meaning of silence. In
society, strictness of the law can be the punishment by money, imprisonment, even
sentence to death. The law has to be enforced strictly to keep the stability and
safety of the society. In a family, if parents are not strict with their children, they
will become disobedient, uneducated and turn into bad people. In a pagoda, if a
master is not strict with his disciples, they will be spoilt and do not concentrate on
practicing the Dharma and meditation. At school, if teachers are not strict with
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their students, they will be disobedient, and do not concentrate on their studies. So
strictness is required to be at different levels in different circumstances.
Being strict with someone bad is the right emotion, with the right intention
to influence them to be better. If we are not strict with childrens, they will be
become disobedient and spoilt. Western culture usually does not approve parents
to spank their children for punishment, therefore the parents are not too strict with
their children. This is one of the main cause of children being spoilt. In contrast,
Asian parents can be very strict with their children so Asian children are more
obedient, which helps make the society more stable.
Completely stay away from untruthfulness.
There are many aspects of untruthfulness. It could be in relationship,
money, business, even in reputation… We must not do anything deceitful. With
those, who are not truthful, we must be strict with them, influence them to avoid
doing deceitful things.
Be honest.
Life is never peaceful if people betray one another.
Under many King dynasties, people have to be loyal to their king to ensure
the stability and safety of their country. If people fought against their king, the
country would be in chaos. Nowadays, we have to loyal to our country and if we
fought against our own government, it was disloyalty, and it would create chaos.
Some would argue that: “this government is so wrong and corrupted so I have to
fight against this political regime”. Actually, we did not know that these thoughts,
and as the result, these actions have been influenced by other foreign
organisations. Intelligence agencies of foreign countries have influenced some
corrupted Vietnamese to write articles, reports, and posts that false or misleading
information onto the internet. Their aim is to make people panic and lose faith in
our government. So they can incite people to rise in rebellion and consequently to
overthrow our government.
In a series of Colour Revolution occurred in the Central and Eastern Europe

in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Governments were overthrown because its
people were incited to rise in rebellion. These people were trapped by different
country intelligence agencies. They became disloyal to their own country. In any
centuries, under any government, loyalty is always treasured and praised. Loyalty
of residents of any country can help stabilize and protect for that country.
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Loyalty is also a main factor for any business/commercial organisations.
Many agencies or companies are growing very well but if only one good employee
was disloyal, he quitted his job to work for other company that offerred a higher
salary, it would cause disturbance and chaos within this company. Many other
people could lose thier jobs if a company collapsed. The employer could be
bankrupt. The main reason was due to an individual’s disloyalty. However, if the
company wanted to keep this employee, it had to offer a higher salary. It became
the competition between the two organisations, which also would not lead to a
better outcome.
Therefore, loyalty is extremely important. Loyal employees would always
think that “the company gives them opportunities to develop their career goals, to
earn money for their family; they have worked in company for a long period of
time; and they do not quit jobs even if there is another higher salary offer”. This
would help the company and also the society to be more stable. Salary is important
in life, but loyalty is much more important. Let’s ask ourselves questions: are we
completely loyal to our Master, to our employer or to our country? If we have
that loyalty in our mind, in our heart, we would always have blessings, as this is
the right type of emotion.
To love our country.
Many people thinks that Buddhism is a religion of infinite compassion, a
religion without any borders. Why do we just limit our love for our country? The
love for our country though is small but practical. Buddhism is a practical religion.

Someone had asked Buddha what the Dharma was. Buddha advised that “the
Dharma is logical and practical, and you must experience it to understand it”. The
“practice” of the Dharma means “come to experience and to understand”; it does
not mean “just listen to believe".
Firstly, the Dharma is practical. Before we love all living beings, first and
foremost, we must love our country. We live together under one political regime,
one legal system. We share one economic system. In addition, we speak one
language, we have one cultural system, one magnanimous history... So we have to
unite, we must love our country, love our compatriots and also to love all beings...
It does not mean that we love our country so we actually invade other
countries. The viewpoint of Buddhism is that we love our country so we develop
and build our country stronger. It is the foundation to contribute towards world
peace. We do not love our country illiberally and selfishly. It must be the right
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emotion. The love, which is greater than the love of our own country, is the love
for all living beings.
To respect national heros/heroines, great men/women, and outstanding
leaders.
Thoughout history, many great people had sacrificed their lives for their
countries and the human race. They were talented but also were very modest. They
were determined to do good things and were willing to sacrifice their lives for the
community. We have to respect them. If we cannot do that, we are just as trivial
and unethical.
To have gratitude.
We always must have the deepest gratitude to all help and support that we
received from others. We must never forget those who have helped and supported
us. Though we might never see these people again, we must remember and repay
by helping everyone else. Please do remember this!

To love the nature, plants, moon, stars, clouds, water....
Why should we love the nature? … To compose poems or to make
music…? It is the right type of emotion. There are some people who live modestly,
ethically… so they would appreciate little things such as bright shining
moonlight… birds singing… We know that these people always have the right
emotion. However, there are people who drinks and thinks that is romantic, then it
is completely wrong. We love nature but we must love it the right way.
To treasure artwork.
Again, this is another type of the right emotion. Those who are wise and
ethical will love the selective artworks. They do not like chaos. They feel
appreciative when they listen to a beautiful song or read a beautiful poem. They
also will admire beautiful architecture. Those, who are less intellectual, often
compose songs with meaningless lyrics or poems. They do not love the art
truthfully. It is not the right emotion.
To be courageous to face challenges and difficulties.
We have to be brave to overcome challenges and difficult situations in our
life. Do not be a coward; or do not fear of these types of circumstances. It is the
right emotion.
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To have compassion for all types of suffering of human beings.
We must have compassion for all types of suffering. We must be kind
hearted, and must not ignore these situations.
"Spring does not come to those, who are indifferent.
Absence of joy when we turn away from the suffering.
Shadow of an orphaned child.
Dedicated monks in their brown robes.
Life always has the thirst for love".
Please remember, we must have sympathy and compassion for those who

are less fortunate than us.
Be happy for other people’s success.
Even when we fail in life, we should be delighted and happy with other
people’s success with all our heart. If we can do that, we can overcome our own
self, have blessings, and deserve to be successful later on in life. If we are jealous
of someone’s success, we are annoyed with it, we will become mediocre people
and never be successful in life. For example, even if we lived in a poorly
structured and broken cottage, we should still be happy for the neighbour, who just
built up a beautiful house. If we sincerely and genuinely were happy for them, our
living situation would be improved later on. However, if we did the opposite, our
life would never be better because of jealousy.
Be happy when our loved ones come home.
In our family, when any of family members i.e. father or mother or brother
or sister comes home, we must welcome them graciously and sincerely. Do not
greet just for the sake of it. If we do not care about others, we are selfish and
indifferent. Or if someone from our pagoda comes home, even he/she was just
away for one day, we still must greet them warmly and inquiry graciously about
their health. In addition, we also must farewell them in similar manner. By doing
that, our family member will feel warm, safe and not anxious even they are far
away from home.
We have discussed about the right types of emotion. They are right because
they make our life more meaningful; we will have more blessing and our mind will
be peaceful and stronger. When we have these right emotions, our mind will be
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strong and will not be controled by ghosts. Ghosts can control our mind when our
mind is weak and we are indebted to them from the past life. Why would our
mind be weak? Because we have the wrong types of emotions: we love and hate
wrongly. When we have the right mindset, the right emotion, our mind will be

stronger and nothing can control us.
Emotion in Buddhism.
We have discussed many different types of emotion in a human being life.
Now lets talk about emotion in Buddhism. The first fundamentally basic emotion
is to have the absolute and boundless respect for Buddha:
"Buddha is the magic light
Is the love spreading all over the world
Is the early morning for birds singing
Is the beautiful cloud flying across the sky
Is the river flowing everywhere
Is the big mountain towering vastly
We will devote completely
To respect and love you immensely
Our heart will be eternally faithful
Though there will be changes and everything can disapprear".
If we follow and practise Buddhism, but we do not have this right emotion,
it is like a house without a roof, or a tree without its root or a person without a
heart.
There are two types of emotion in Buddhism: Have boundless and absolute
respect for Buddha; and always have boundless compassion for all beings.
There are other types such as:
Forever be faithful and devote to the Dharma.
It means we must practise the Dharma properly and diligently. Eventually, it
will be in our mind, and it will lead us to live a better life.
Be afraid to make even small mistakes.
In Majjhima Nikaya, a Buddhist scripture, the second of the five Nikayas,
Buddha had taught clearly us that: "We must see the danger in every small
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mistake". Buddhist laymen/laywomen (Upasaka/Upasika) are allowed to make
small mistakes but monks must be afraid of all mistakes, even a small one.
Respect all true Saints but be strict with all impostors.
We should not mistakenly think that we have to respect all monks, all
religious practitioners. That would be wrong. We must not easily accept who they
are as it will lead to the fact that many people will become monks for wrong
reasons. Some people abuse the situation by becoming monks to get the attention,
support and help from others. They become monks to live an easy life and also
have respect from others. We must only respect those who truly want to become
monks, who live a virtuous religious life and practise Buddhism rightly.
Love to meditate to reach the deep concentration level; and be ashamed of
chaotic mind.
When our mind is chaotic and we cannot keep it calm, we must be ashamed
of it. When we can achieve the deep meditation state, and when we can keep our
mind free from false thoughts of greed, hatred and stupidity, we should feel happy
about it. We must not be proud of it though, but must have the passion for
meditation.
Devote ourselves to help others.
Those, who follow Buddhism but live passively and selfishly, and do not
help others, are lack of this important emotion. Those, who devote themselves to
help others, but are worried about if they are bored or not, then this is still not the
right emotion. Only those, who forget about themselves, and devote everything for
others, then always turn back to live a quiet life, and their mind is always calm,
then this is the right emotion.
The right and true emotion in our life and in Buddhism will make our life be
better, more useful, our merit and virtue will gradually increase. It will also help us
practise Buddha's teachings diligently, and gradually we can achieve
enlightenment. We can only achieve this stage, if we have the right and true
emotion. Those who are selfish and indifferent will gradually lose their blessing
and never be able to have good karma, and never be able to reach Buddhahood.

The last emotion, but also the most especial and important one, is the
religious belief.
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The religious belief is a special kind of emotion. We accept and love our
religion leaders and our religious doctrine. This emotion is very intense. It could
be extreme. There have been many cases in the world, when someone became a
suicide bomber to prove the point. They believe that their action is to serve and to
devote for their religion. Their love for their religion is so intense and extreme that
they are willing to die for their religion. This extermely intense emotion makes the
whole world fearful and terified, and the law had to give in.
But why the love for religion is extermely intense? Because the doctrine of
these religions always dignify their religious leaders. These religions promise them
a lot of good things. These religions promise its followers that they will have a
happy and wonderful life after death if they serve for their religion. These
promises are beyond their imagination. They absolutely believe these promises. So
their love for religion becomes so extermely intense that they are willing to die for
it. And the law had to give in and allowed freedom of religious beliefs.
However, majority of current religions in the world are superstitious and
obsolete. If we read carefully some other religion doctrines, we will see that many
doctrines are vague, mystical, and absolutely unreasonable. Despite of that,
millions of people still still believe in them. The law had to give in for these
extreme religions. As the result, these religions still can continue building up and
attract more followers to grow and develop further their wrong doctrines, wrong
beliefs.
The give in of the law is not an advancement, but is the surrender of science
and reasoning. In the future, some days, when science is so advanced, human
civilization is so far progressed, the society is more intellectual, scientists and
sociologists will consider carefully every religious doctrines and filter them

through the system properly. Whichever religious doctrines that are true,
reasonable, advanced and scientically correct, we must treasure them. We must get
it of those doctrines, which are wrong and misleading. Only by doing this, the
human race can always have true beliefs.
In the next few centuries, human beings should not have to accept false
beliefs and have wrong emotion. It is the responsibility of us and other world
leaders during this present time. However, nobody can do that today because a
large number of people have believed in the wrong religions. Reasoning still lose
to intuition and emotion. Religion is imposed on many newborn children when
they are so little and have no knowledge of anything.
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In the future, the world will somehow filter all religion beliefs and assess
carefully all religious doctrines. So, as we are true Buddhists, we should head
towards isright direction. We have to encourage our relatives or our friends to do
the same regardless what religions they are following right now. We should advise
them that “you should not wallow in the current religious beliefs, you should
escape from these emotions and assess your religion carefully and objectively. We
should select a true religion to follow and and improve our practice”.
Once, someone asked us that “Should I worship other Gods and Saints?”
We answered that "No, you should not do that. Their souls already had
transmigrated”. Buddha had stated very clearly that “No God will exist eternally.
All living beings, gods and devils have to transmigrate at some point in time”.
Buddha also taught that “We should not worship Devil either as they cannot exist
eternally in their temple”. These souls would have transmigrated long time ago but
we would never know about that. If we continue doing these actions, we would not
earn any blessings. We should only worship the Saints, who had chieved
enlightenment as they have escaped from the cycle of birth, life and death. They
will forever be with us, listen to our prayers and grant us their blessings.

In Buddhism, even there are some people who have enormous respect for
their Masters, however, when they are given feedback about their practice to help
them improve, they would feel hurt, then annoyed and protest immediately.
Human beings emotion can be awfully strong. Only those, whose mind are pure,
calm and wise, can distinguish between emotion and reasoning in order to keep
their respect and their belief stable and strong. It also means that they are able to
escape from their own personal emotion to accept the truth.
To that, our heart are not useless
But we must know to differentiate between right and wrong
Wrong emotion makes our lives suffering
Right emotion makes our future lives happy.
We are confined to love and hate
To our anxiety and agitation
We live in dreams controlled our emotions
Our dreams are like a haze.
According to Buddha's teachings, we must have compassion for all beings
With the great love without any boundary
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The infinite compassion spreads all over the world
We have serenity as the sound of the pagoda bell in the afternoon
And everyday in the yard with full of sunlight
Life is still happy as a holy gift
For someone who loves songs of meditation
It is very quiet but resounding through the three worlds.
NAMO SHAKYA MUNI BUDDHA

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