Feelings are quickly sorted using a **flattened Buddhist hierarchy**:
Good, Bad, Indifferent ā but without projecting identity or narrative onto them.
Action logic:
- More of this
- Less of this
- Keep doing this
This approach allows **recollective reasoning** to operate without distortion.
For example: a good feeling caused by manipulation or violence is not a ādo more of thisā cue.
Likewise, praise from a client may feel good, but is not in itself feedback on process clarity.
š Emotional Release as Signal of Detachment
When a sunken value or narrative attachment is removed, there is often an emotional residue.
This might include:
- Relief
- Sadness
- Gratitude
- Temporary loss of orientation
These responses are not problems.
They are **evidence of subtraction** ā the system adjusting to new clarity.
Because of this, **compassionate understanding is not therapeutic sentiment**, but an essential tool for stabilizing EmptiSelf processing.
Compassion = Seeing the signal, not assigning identity.
Understanding = Remaining in process clarity without recoiling into narrative.
This is what enables recollective reasoning to become effortless ā because it moves through emotion without conflation.
This section should be read in relation to:
- [[Cognitive Clarity Toolkit]]
- [[Reason Reckoning Protocol]]
- [[Flattened Feedback Structures for AI-Human Cooperation]]