Friends:
Blown here and
there by Emotional Storms!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, even as many winds blow
turbulent in the sky, from directions
of east,
west, south, & north, both dusty and dustless winds, both cold &
hot winds, both
mild &
forceful winds, even so do also all the many various
feelings arise in this
body: Pleasant, painful & neither-painful-nor-pleasant
feelings
perpetually emerge and agitate the mind...

Just as many diverse winds, storms here and there across the sky, So in this very body:
The many types of various feelings arise, Both pleasant, painful, and those neither painful nor pleasant. Yet when a determined Bhikkhu does not
neglect aware and clear
comprehension, then such intelligent one fully understands these feelings and all their complex aspects
of dependency... All provoked, induced and arisen from sense contact! Instantly vanishing, when this
same contact ceases! Having fully understood feelings, he is freed
of all hidden mental
fermentation, even in this very life..
Remaining in this state, at the
body's breakup, such Mind-Master cannot ever even be imagined...

Pleasant feeling
attracts and thus induces greed... Painful feeling averts and thus produces hate...
Neither-painful-nor-pleasant neutral feeling causes neglect & generates
thus ignorance...

All
converges on Feeling (Vedanā):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Three_Basic_Kinds_of_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_8_Aspects_of_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Detached_from_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_108_Feelings.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Emotional_Storm.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Feelings.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV [219]
section 36: On Feeling: Vedana. The Sky: Akasam. 12.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html

Emotional Storm!
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