Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Why do you hold on to the anger that arises within you?
The clue to the answer lay within the question.
The clue to the answer lay within the question.
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Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
What is there to be angry about?
Anger arises from within your thoughts, not from what others may do toward you.
nPeace
Veteran Member
Some people can't help themselves. Or rather, I shouldn't say can't, but don't want to. It's like a person with a cancer, but they don't want to get rid of it, because somehow, it makes them feel like somebody.... but at the same time, they don't realize it's killing them.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes, some people cling to their ego and let their frustration onto others.Some people can't help themselves. Or rather, I shouldn't say can't, but don't want to. It's like a person with a cancer, but they don't want to get rid of it, because somehow, it makes them feel like somebody.... but at the same time, they don't realize it's killing them.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Are you not angry that our politicians are ignoring climate change?
Are you not angry that so many kids are taught creationism as fact?
Are you not angry that millions are starving whilst others deny people basic health care?
You should be.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Anger is often a reflection of once own thoughts and worries about self/ ego
nPeace
Veteran Member
Exactly. It reflect how one feels about themselves. Taking it out on others, makes them feel good about themselves. It's a sickness - a disease.
nPeace
Veteran Member
I actually misread your t-shirt earlier. I thought it read... "If you ere angry..."
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
No, No anger toward what you say.
Politicians do not work for the best of humanity, they work for their own good and ego.
For those who teach creationism, it is their choice of how they wish to teach their kids not something to be angry about.
No, Not angry because people are in different stages of life, Some people are born into poverty from past karma. But having compassion with them for the suffering they going through
Some people are born as rich, but spend their money in waited objects and to enrich themselves, not something to be angry at (it is their choice)
Anger does not solve a thing in the world, it only creates more anger and suffering
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Ya, but if someone hits me over the head with a 2 X 4, I do think that it's not all just in my mind.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Do you see the reason why it happens? Can it be that something from the past has caught up with you and the result is someone hitting you? (Karma = result of action, words or thoughts done in the past)Ya, but if someone hits me over the head with a 2 X 4, I do think that it's not all just in my mind.
So without knowing the reason for what causes someone to hit you, why become angry?
Anger is a reflection of the perception of grievance and/or injustice. This perception may be misplaced due to the limitations of our knowledge, but it is not the product of pure imagination. It does not come entirely from “within” but has its source in our relations with our environment and obstacles that frustrate our freedom of action.
Anger is often a critical ingredient in the psychological motivation in the pursuit of justice. When we deny anger, we often empower the oppressors who demand and expect our compliance and obedience to their will. It is true that anger can serve a role in aggression and domination, but the problem is the ends and interests with which anger is pursued, not anger as a means of articulating human interests in our emotional state.
nPeace
Veteran Member
If I may say.... you may think so, but it is... the anger, I mean. Not the lash with the two by four.Ya, but if someone hits me over the head with a 2 X 4, I do think that it's not all just in my mind.
People have gotten worst, and through the pain, they walked away... with no anger. There was something else, in their thoughts.
Not saying it's easy, but it can be done.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Justice of what? Poice and Judges in court is the one who can legally say if something is justified.
But when seeing the cause(why did they attack in the firt place) of the attack, the result may look differently
Altfish
Veteran Member
Sorry, I can't agree with that, in particular the 'past karma' nonsense.
Anger is a necessary emotion; it is how you control that anger that matters.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Why do Anger matter? Does not anger lead to more suffering?
Altfish
Veteran Member
Read my post again - especially the bit about "How you control your anger" - I can be angry and do nothing.
Not that that is always the best approach.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Even when you do not harm others, or speak back to them, you suffer as long you hold the anger within you. Often it is a sign that once Ego speaks and until Ego is satisfied the anger lingers in the mind.