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When I come to see something really clearly, catching a bad thought in the middle of daily activities, for instance, it often triggers joy in me.

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I feel I have insight.

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Do you think this joy is wholesome or is it based on ego?

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How to deal with it?

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Again, the importance or the usefulness of the Abhidhamma.

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Joy

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Somanasa can be either wholesome or unwholesome.

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In and of itself, it's neither.

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It can be accompanied by wholesomeness or unwholesomeness.

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If you like something and that has a joy associated with it, then that's unwholesome.

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If you do something positive, like help someone else or cultivate insight and joy comes spontaneously from that, then that's neutral.

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If you do something wholesome and you feel good about that wholesomeness and feel joy doing good deeds at the moment of doing, then that's wholesome.

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But it's not wholesome because of the feeling.

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It's not wholesome because of the joy.

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Joy is indeterminate.

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It's a part of the mind that is neither positive or negative.

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It's indeterminate.

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It's neutral.

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Depends what it's accompanied with.

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And it can come in three spots.

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One, in an unwholesome mind.

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Two, in a wholesome mind.

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And three, in a mind that is the result of a wholesome mind.

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So feeling happy because of something good that you've done.

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The first one is unwholesome, the second one is wholesome, but the third one, the result is neutral.

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And in all three cases, the quality of the mind is not determined by the joy.

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So joy is indeterminate.

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You see how useful the Abhidhamma is?

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I can answer that question without any doubt.

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Whether you believe me or not, this is another thing.

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Dealing with it is just to say to yourself, happy, happy, feeling, feeling.

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If you like it, say liking, liking, and so on.

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See it for what it is.