Feelings Importance

[Alexander]

Why feelings hold more importance in nonduality then thoughts,perception,bodily sensations etc?

[Mandy]

Feelings as in emotions you mean? No one is saying that they hold more importance. They aren't separate which is why you know by how a thought feels whether or not there are false separations assumed in it. You "know it in your gut". 

[MetaSage]

They don't.

 

What's absolutely true regardless of importance, feeling, preference, belief, etc?

 

But definitely investigate feeling itself too, although don't confuse it for the big banana (enlightenment).

Edited November 16, 2023 by MetaSage

[Phil]

On 11/13/2023 at 4:01 PM, Alexander said:

Why feelings hold more importance in nonduality than thoughts,perception,bodily sensations etc?

Feelings, plural, is not what’s being said. 

Feeling… singular, indivisible, is what’s being said. 

 

Emotions vary, just as & in accordance with, appearing thoughts & interpretations. 

 

That there are / is two, such as some thing being more important than some other thing, is precisely what’s not being said. 

That there are not two, and therein that importance is only arrived at via a false comparison (of two) is what’s being said. 

(Meaning, purpose, value & worth are ‘arrived at’ via false comparisons based on the belief in two).

 

The relevance of thought, perception and sensation is direct experience. 

 

Deflection & projection are employed as a means to not hear what’s being said. 

This goes unnoticed as it’s believed.

Yet - the ‘goes unnoticed aspect’ is nonetheless felt. 

For that, there is the intrinsic guidance of, emotion.