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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