When something triggers me, I have emotional work to do

Zen master Al Rapaport posted on Facebook:  “Does the arising of emotion imply lack of resolution on an issue?” Galpal Elizabeth Stamper commented “Arising of emotion implies a human being encountering samskara.”  Samskara are imprints left on the mind by experience in this or past lives.  I know anytime something triggers me, it shows where I have emotional work to do.  It shows where I am under the impulse of previous impressionsWe don’t want to avoid emotions, rather we want to stay mindful in the moment and breathe through the experience to discover what remains to be processed. Only then are we free from it.

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