The idea of the mandala is that one should not leave the center, but should function as the governor of a city dwelling in the innermost temple of the forbidden city. His employees, his subordinates, go in and out of the doors, but he does not, he remains in the center and is well protected. Therefore, there are doors and walls that show that the aspiration is not to be dead and buried in the mandala, but to function through the mandala. Carl Jung
In the soul well-being and discomfort are related to the sensations of the body. Joys and sorrows are states related to the actions of the person. Happiness and unhappiness are states related to the exercise of virtue.
| sensations | appetites |
|---|---|
| affections | |
| performances | desires |
| passions | |
| virtues | happiness |
Sensation is the impression that things make on the soul through the senses. Also, the motivation for the act in its simplest form. In the sensations our basic emotional program is expressed that corresponds to our survival needs.
The faculties of the body can be differentiated into appetites and affections. How we propel ourselves to the objects we need and how objects necessarily affect us. If the body receives what it needs, it will feel well-being, while if it does not receive it, it will feel discomfort.
The first sensation is appetite, hunger leads us to search. This search has its psychological correlate in the things that we undertake as people, in each beginning.
Just as the newborn looks for food first, the soul also needs to nourish itself. This is the primary motivation that will develop throughout life.
We are subject to search, to begin. Then you have to have the ability to take what was found. What was taken must be assimilated, we must be able to use the energy that food gives us. Finally you have to throw away what does not work. The action of these four sensations are the nurturing foundation of the soul.
The soul needs to build an image of the environment, to achieve this it has the ability to know and remember. To form habits and give meaning, that is, to give coherence to the information you receive. These four sensations are the referential foundation of the soul. Finally there are the four sensations that are the foundation of learning. These are on the side of capabilities, to imitate and admire, and on the side of appetites, curiosity and expressing.
In our actions we sometimes commit excesses, sometimes it is not enough for us. Desires and passions bring us actions that lead us to experience joys and sorrows, successes and failures. Desires reveal our shortcomings while passions reveal excesses.
The performances are the acts of the person. The term person comes from Latin and means: "actor's mask". Joy and sadness are the masks that symbolize the theater. Social life is the stage where souls act. As circumstances require, vigorous action is sometimes conducive; Sometimes success comes when you get what you lack. This causes joy in the soul. At other times, both overly acting and weakly acting can be a source of sadness.
Four acts establish the relationship between people: approaching and moving away show the intention, power and duty justify the act.
Six emotions are the axis of the performance: passion and desire, certainty and uncertainty, joy and suffering. Between possession and surrender is joy. On either side of suffering are ambition and selfishness. Opinion and belief are located on both sides of the certainty. Between turmoil and arrest is uncertainty. When passion deviates, anger and euphoria appear. Love and hate are deviations from desire.
Finally we find in the soul the virtues. The virtues differentiate us from the rest of the animals. Through virtues we can act in harmony with the movement of the spirit. Virtuous acts transcend personal good to achieve the general good.
To the extent that we can perform successful virtuous acts, we will achieve happiness. On the contrary, certain acts can take us away from the virtues, this will be a reason for unhappiness.
Aristotle said: "moral virtue involves the passions and acts of man, and it is in our acts and our passions that now the excess, now the defect, now the just mean are produced.] [In the feelings of pleasure and pain, plus and minus meet, and none of these contrary feelings are good. But the means, and the perfection that can only be found in virtue, consists in knowing how to put them to the test as appropriate, according to circumstances, according to things, according to people, according to the cause, and knowing how to maintain in them the true measure. For passions and acts, excess in abundance is a fault; excess in deficiency is likewise reprehensible; only the middle term is worthy of praise, because only it is found in the exact and just measure, and these two conditions constitute the privilege of virtue. In such a way that virtue is a kind of means, since the means is the end that it constantly seeks.”
Virtue is achieved through learning and habit. Virtuous acts are the result of the transformation of the soul, from animal to spiritual. In virtue the human being expresses the set of moral rules that he has. The result of the exercise of virtue is wisdom. In virtuous acts the best of life is manifested. And it allows us to achieve happiness.
The virtues of being are action and production. Intuition and reason are virtues of the "human being". The greatest virtues are fulfillment and fulfillment. Joy and peace are feelings of communion with the spirit. Passion achieves its virtue through prudence and temperance. Desire achieves its virtue through grace and sweetness.
We did not find a facial expression for each emotion, but a variety of related but visually different expressions. For example, when we look at the pride emotion we find different forms that share certain common properties. We have many terms for pride, such as arrogance, haughtiness, deification, conceit, pretense, vanity, pedantry, conceit, arrogance, petulance, and arrogance. Pride would be a pure emotion and the rest, which we call synonyms, arise from mixing with some other emotion. For example: pride mixed with euphoria gives pedantry; pride mixed with anger gives arrogance, pride mixed with belief gives conceit, pride mixed with selfishness gives vanity, pride mixed with enthusiasm gives hauteur, etc.