"Rasas
are the essences of our emotions that exist in both body and mind. The Indian
tradition recognizes nine Rasas as representing our most important and basic
emotions: Love, Joy, Wonder, Courage, Calmness, Anger, Sadness, Fear and Disgust.
Some are desirable. Others are unpleasant and most often not desirable." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"We
can be slaves of our Rasas or not. All emotions make sense sometimes, but not
at all times." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
”All
desires for ownerships, security, enjoyment, recognition, love, knowledge,
enlightenment and so on are desires for the happiness that we hope to feel by
fulfilling them. Whatever form the desire takes, feeling happy is all that we
ever really desire." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"While
it may seem that we have little impact on the things that happen to us, we are
always fully in charge of our emotional reactions to them. We have every right
to be happy or unhappy and can develop the power to exercise that right." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"To be detached from something that is not present seems easier than to be detached in the face of full temptation." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Rasas
are neither purely physical nor purely mental. In Tantra, each body cell has a
'mind' of its own. Body and mind really are one." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Whatever
we love becomes beautiful in our eyes and we naturally fall in love with
whatever we find beautiful, visually or otherwise." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Be
careful when using any external factors such as music, special herbs, and food
and so on in order to affect our emotions. If we commonly user external factors
to make ourselves 'happy' our natural ability to feel good will be reduced.
This does not mean that external factors cannot be used, but that moderation
and diversity make a lot of sense. In any case, external factors cannot be
completely avoided but we can be careful in dealing with their quality and
quantity." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Laughing
at out worries means we understand that future can bring anything: It may bring
what we fear or its opposite, or even something completely unexpected." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Life
without some mystery is terribly boring and dull; the older we get the more we
understand and the more important it becomes to experience wonderful
things." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Calmness
is very popular but rare, while Anger is very unpopular but common." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Today
many people regard saints as people who are simply doing nothing. What they do
not understand is how difficult and rewarding doing nothing really is." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Another
aspect of following dharma is to fulfill those desire that bring one to a
higher state of being. It may be necessary even to fulfill some rather selfish
desires in order to feel satisfied. As long as they do not become addiction,
this is a very natural process of spiritual evolution in which desires are
exhausted through fulfillment." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"We
may have every right to be angry, but we also have the right not to be
stupid." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Only
that which is never changing is true and in Maya, everything is continuously
changing. In Maya, nothing lasts forever; that is the cause of suffering in
those who do not see through the illusion of Maya." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"True
compassion is without discrimination and can be felt for humans as well as for
animals, plants or enemies." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"To
worry means to live in the future and as such it takes most enjoyment out of
life." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"When
we ignore unhappy feelings we miss an opportunity to change them. Ignoring or
suppressing happy feelings is a waste of vitality. Ignoring emotions simply
does not work, because they come and go anyway." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Identification
with less agreeable emotions will only make them stronger. If something is
displeasing, getting upset about it only makes it a lot worse. Too much
identification with agreeable emotions will only make it more difficult to
accept that they are time-bound and may undermine their strength. True freedom
only comes when we are fully in control." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Anger
may have its uses in communication, but even then, we may come to feel that in
Anger we always lose more than we gain." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Daily
rituals develop and maintain positive emotions and thoughts. Daily habits are
not only needed to regulate the lives of children, but also to bring order to
childlike mind of any adult." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"If
we do everything in a different way every day then we have to think about it.
This leaves us less time and energy to get the benefit from what we are
doing." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"It
is important to relax on daily basis and do something without material or
practical purpose." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Spending
some leisure time is the best way to accept that some problems in life cannot
be solved instantly, Life should be enjoyed." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"You
are in-charge, whatever you do is your responsibility and you always have the
power to change your emotional state." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"The
great asset and power of identification with a group of people of like
spiritual attitude becomes a danger when the ego takes the game a little
further into claiming its spiritual path as the only available path." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"Fundamentalism
is not a problem of people sticking firmly to the fundamentals of their
religion, common misinterpretation. Fundamentalism enters when people try to
force the fundamentals of their religion on others. It becomes more of a
problem when such religious groups enter the realm of politics, the struggle
for power over the minds and possessions of people." ~~ Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga
of the Nine Emotions)
"If
the art only communicates problems and offers no solution, then the public will
suffer from it and the art will only enhance the more demonic feelings. Such
art is of bad taste and very unhealthy, both for the artists and for the
spectators." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Money
doesn't make you happy but having no money is not a good option either if your
stomach is empty." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"All
desires are ultimately desires for happiness, so if people can be taught to
pursue happiness more directly, it will be very best help one can
provide." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Advertising
makes people unhappy and drives this world crazy. It shows us more beautiful
women and men in just one day than we are likely to meet in real life during an
entire lifetime. While feminists rightfully complain about many ads being
degrading to women, nobody seems to wonder about what these ads do to
men." ~~
Peter Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
"Feeling
good or bad is a matter of choice. Whatever unpleasant thing happens is only
unpleasant if we let out Rasas follow it. When something does not function as
it should or somebody does something bad, or we ourselves do something stupid:
If we let such things make us feel bad, then we make ourselves suffer so much more."
~~ Peter
Marchand (Book: The Yoga of the Nine Emotions)
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