Mental Law

If you have two thoughts in differing direction you cannot have it at the same time. This is what I learned for the period of our philosophy lecture yesterday. This mental law simply means that you cannot be angry and happy at the same person at the same time. We can have two or more thoughts or emotion if its nature was the same. But contradictory thoughts at the same time is not probable, it is contracting. And I also learned that if you have negative or unproductive thoughts you must cultivate it to affirmative one. If you are angry the antidote is the loving-kindness and compassion to someone. It was divergent to the modern psychology who says that if you are angry you should express it, you must show it to lessen the extent of your angriness to someone. But this philosophy believes that when you express anger you are practicing it, and it became your habit. The next time when someone insult or hurt you, the degree of your anger will easily increase because anger becomes your second nature. According to some Buddhist book there are about 4000 kinds of disruptive emotions but there are also 4000 kinds of antidote for it.

            So let as start to live our life to a happier one by cultivating the opposite of our disruptive emotions that we all have.