1. An angry person

    Comment November 12, 2015

    Four Sights

    An angry person is ugly & sleeps poorly.
    Gaining a profit, he turns it into a loss,
    having done damage with word & deed.
    A person overwhelmed with anger
    destroys his wealth.
    Maddened with anger,
    he destroys his status.
    Relatives, friends, & colleagues avoid him.
    Anger brings loss.
    Anger inflames the mind.
    He doesn’t realize
    that his danger is born from within.
    An angry person doesn’t know his own benefit.
    An angry person doesn’t see the Dhamma.
    A man conquered by anger is in a mass of darkness.
    He takes pleasure in bad deeds as if they were good,
    but later, when his anger is gone,
    he suffers as if burned with fire.
    He is spoiled, blotted out,
    like fire enveloped in smoke.

    Anguttara Nikaya VII.60

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  2. The world always finds a way to praise and a way to blame

    Comment October 30, 2015

    Buddha and King Bimbisara at Rajagaha City - Ariyamagga

    Listen, Atula. This is not new,
    It is an old saying –

    “They blame you for being silent,
    They blame you when you talk too much
    And when you talk too little.”
    Whatever you do, they blame you.

    The world always finds
    A way to praise and a way to blame.
    It always has and it always will.

    But who dares blame the man
    Whom the wise continually praise,
    Whose life is virtuous and wise,
    Who shines like a coin of pure gold?

    Even the gods praise him.
    Even Brahma praises him.

    Beware of the anger of the body.
    Master the body.
    Let it serve truth.

    Beware of the anger of the mouth.
    Master your words.
    Let them serve truth.

    Beware of the anger of the mind.
    Master your thoughts.
    Let them serve truth.

    The wise have mastered
    Body, word and mind.

    They are the true masters.

    ~Dhammapada

     

  3. Gentleness…

    Comment October 30, 2015

    With gentleness overcome anger.
    With generosity overcome meanness.
    With truth overcome deceit.

    ~Dhammapada

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  4. Our actual enemy

    Comment October 21, 2015

    Our anger is our actual enemy. It is an obstacle that cuts us off from the cause of higher states of rebirth and the definitive excellence that is liberation. If we do not tame it, then outer enemies will simply multiply. They will increase to the same extent that we try to overpower them. And they could present a danger to our lives and to our ability to keep any of the three sets of vows (individual liberation, bodhisattva, and tantric) we may have taken. Since we are the ones who make one another into enemies, they can proliferate without limit. By creating such projections, we are engaging in actions that are detrimental. Why is this so? Because there is not one living being who has not been our mother or father, and therefore they should all be the objects if our compassion. On the other hand, there is not one living being who has not been our enemy. In this way, all living beings are equally our friends and enemies, so being attached to some and feeling hatred for others makes no sense. Through a mind that sees this equality, we should tame the enemy of our own anger with an army of great compassion. This is the practice of a true bodhisattva. 17th Karmapa

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  5. Reduce your anger…

    Comment October 16, 2015

    Do good. Reduce your anger and (try to) do something to train the mind through right understanding. Change the mind through our own experience of understanding what is right and wrong. ~Ven. Dr. K Sri Dhammananda

  6. From across the street

    Comment September 13, 2015

    Suppose one morning you’re walking to work and a man yells abuse and insults at you from across the street. As soon as you hear this abuse your mind changes from its usual state. You don’t feel so good, you feel angry and hurt. That man walks around abusing you night and day. Whenever you hear the abuse, you get angry, and even when you return home you’re still angry because you feel vindictive, you want to get even.

    A few days later another man comes to your house and calls out, ”Hey! That man who abused you the other day, he’s mad, he’s crazy! Has been for years! He abuses everybody like that. Nobody takes any notice of anything he says.” As soon as you hear this you are suddenly relieved. That anger and hurt that you’ve pent up within you all these days melts away completely. Why? Because you know the truth of the matter now. Before, you didn’t know, you thought that man was normal, so you were angry at him. Understanding like that caused you to suffer. As soon as you find out the truth, everything changes: ”Oh, he’s mad! That explains everything!”

    When you understand this you feel fine, because you know for yourself. Having known, then you can let go. If you don’t know the truth you cling right there. When you thought that man who abused you was normal you could have killed him. But when you find out the truth, that he’s mad, you feel much better. This is knowledge of the truth.

    ~Ajahn Chah

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  7. Anger, resentment and jealousy

    Comment August 28, 2015

    Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours. ~Shannon L. Alder

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  9. Two types of seeds

    Comment August 27, 2015

    There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group. ~Amit Ray

  10. Anger is an acid

    Comment August 4, 2015

    Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which
    it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ~Mark Twain

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