--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Daniel <daniell@...> wrote:

>I understand that buddhism says that afflictive emotions such as

anger, hatred

> jealousy, pride are in themselves a type of suffering. That

feeling them is actually suffering.

>
>It would be very interesting for me to hear personal perspectives

on those

> feelings, and how do people view them as sufferings.
>

According to the book The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism
(by Choong Mun-keat) in pages 110-1, it seems to me that feelings
themselves are not suffering (bodily feeling). But if feelings
develop negative emotions (mental feeling), such as desire,
repulsion, and ignorance, then the emotions will give rise to
suffering, such as grief, distress, affliction. These are not a
peaceful feeling at all. It makes sense to me.

Thomas Law