Form Attachment

Emotions arise when there’s attachment to the thing that triggers them. At the root of this attachment is form and as long as form is in control the roller coaster of emotions will take you for a ride…

Emotions aren’t something that exist by themselves, they’re a movement or reaction to something that occurs. There are many different emotions that arise and they can be put into an associated category to best get a handle on them when they do arise. Emotions arise when there’s a form attachment to something that occurs. Nothing randomly makes an emotion arise, there has to be a form association with something. Emotions only arise form assigns meaning to something. There isn’t much emotion when you hear of a stranger dying, but attach the form word Mother, Father, sister, brother, and so on to it and just watch the emotional onslaught.

Emotions don’t exist until form attaches to something, this is what gives the emotion life and allows it to arise. Example: grief is only a word until form attaches “I have loss” to it. Once this happens look out because depending on how deeply form is attached to the loss determines the level of grief. Same thing with joy, something happens and now form attaches pleasure to it and therein lies the emotion of joy. Here are just some emotions that form controls, fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, trust, happiness, to name a few, watch for yourself when these arise and see where their root is from. With awareness of this you should be able to get a better grip on just how the Conditioned Mind keeps you under its control by weighing you down with a deeply embedded idea of form as an anchor…