For me it is difficult to translate “feelings” and “emotions” exactly in to german language.
I think: feelimgs and emotions are the natural equipment of a human beeing. I try to accept and appreciate these qualities. They seem to be like weather: hot, cold, gentle, powerful, destructive, nourishing. I remember a situation near Bodh Gaya: a thunderstorm was brewing. Tarthang Tulku went out of the bus and looked at the storm and it seemed to me, that he talked with these energies.
Today an old man visited to me. He told about his childhood, his brothers etc. I looked at my ´gut-level´ knowledge and I gained the impression, that I could understand more of the background of his stories.
It seems to me, that in LOK, Ch.19, is told mainly about  inflated emotions, less about subtle feelings and emotions. What about “compassion” (in german “Mit-Gefühl”: a feeling with somebody). Compassion could be to feel the vibration of a person, to feel (maybe on the gut-level)  with love?
What about a person without or suppressed feelings and emotions? What about a landscape without water? What about love without a moving (feeling – emotional) quality?
Its difficult to make myself understood. Chapter 19 induces me to think and feel about “feelings and emotions”.
Peter.
