How to control yourself.

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.