WebsterMark wrote on 09/02/20 at 10:44:45:
It cannot be someone else's fault that you are angry,
What nonsense is that? Yes, it can be. If I rob you and take everything you own, leaving you penniless, you better be angry.
No matter how extreme your example is, someone can only awaken your anger. Touch what has been dormant there for a long time.
What you do with it is entirely your responsibility.
If some one could make you angry, you would be at te mercy of that person.
No,,, you, are the one who is responsible for your being taken over by anger.
Anger is part of our survival meganism and thus has a function.
But If you are much more powerfull, I cant do much more than surender to that. In that moment.Time is on my side. You are on this forum we know you and you end up in jail.
I'm not talking about suppressing anger or anything like that.I,m talking about transforming anger.
What you see happening on the news are people who are completely unaware, because anger has taken them over.
And uneawareness is contagious.
Taking responsibility for anger that resides within you, is a method of transforming anger and thus becoming free from it.
Hopefully you will never hear me say that anger is not good. Anger is extremely potent and when that energy transforms it becomes strength.
But if we use anger reactively, it becomes destructive.
If you take responsibility for it, you do not react, but respond to the situation, because you take responsibility.
And your actions will be proportional and you will know exactly how to act.
If you look at Gandhi, Nelson, Teresa and Martin, those were normal people, who transformed their anger into strength.
Take Gandi, he liberated Inda from the English occupation without violence.
Compare that with Donald. He only reacts with the same emotion x 3. Where do you think that will lead us to?
But my intrest is not political, I am focused on becoming free from the Emotion-mind system.
Because the crisis we find ourselves in, is a spiritual crisis.
We lost ourself in emotions and thouhts.
And to be very clear;
I am not talking about Christian sauces poured on anger, jealousy and sexuality. Also not for Buddhist loving attitudes ore new age escape attempts.
These are cheap solutions, that are well planned but do not work.