Unenlightened beings, it is said, see the world indirectly through a veil of negative emotions and
erroneous views.
Some go so far as to suggest that such people see the world, not simply seen indirectly, but
rather that it is literally constructed by their emotional dispositions.
For instance, in the Majjhima
Nikāya (I.111), the
Buddha explicitly states that “what one feels, one perceives” (Yaṃ vedeti, taṃ sañjānāti).
That is, our knowledge is formed by our feelings.
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