How to control yourself.

Thank you Chiron. lol
It is extremely difficult to pretend not to have emotion, the level of indifference and apathy coupled with genuine desire is a serious mental disorder. I suggest you think twice about the way you feel right now, don't confuse lack of excessive or hyper emotion for no emotion at all.

You need emotion because you need to feel all the bad to feel that good

You can't feel joy or happiness without sadness and anger so you need them and that's the end of it and everyone has them even if you deny them

Well, the point of the whole post wasn't to start a conversation about emotion, so that whole thing was useless.

No one got my Jedi joke? :(
Seriously though I'm curious where this comes from? I'm not familiar with any religion or philosophy that completely denies emotion.

That quote was from Star Wars? I thought it was Taoist. Looks like George Lucus had a little inspiration from Asian culture! =)

"Looks like George Lucus had a little inspiration from Asian culture!"

Actually it was mythologist Joseph Campbell who was much of his inspiration, but yes, a lot of Taoism made its way through. The Campbell influence is actually why I'll let Jediism slide and consider it a valid religion.

www.moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/sffilm/camplink.html

Jediism, I like that, I'm going to steal that.

Interesting Chiron, thanks for the info.

lol.. first, if you have no emotions or was raised to have none then you wouldn't mind posting this thread on the first place and you wouldn't mind reacting to the other people's posts here.. lol..

pretending to have none.. this is very hard.. you're not actually controlling yourself, you're just denying the other part of you which is very destructing in a sense that you really don't know of who you really are..

namaste..

"pretending to have none.. this is very hard.. you're not actually controlling yourself, you're just denying the other part of you which is very destructing in a sense that you really don't know of who you really are.."

In fact, having to endeavor so hard to keep your emotions buried sounds a lot like they have come to control you , sort of like children delighting in a caretaker's anger and attempts at discipline. It doesn't matter how loud you yell at them to stay in their room, if they not only caused the situation but are no laughing at it, they totally control the situation and your feelings and reactions.

Transcending emotion, which is what I believe you're actually trying to indicate, comes through peacefully experiencing emotions and, through this, mastering them. The goal isn't to stop experiencing joy or anger, it's to exist with them on your own terms rather than helplessly feeling them as they come and go.

Besides being an obvious part of Buddhism, mastery of emotion and desire was something Crowley addressed on several occasions. You should apparently look them up.