The
Crucial Elimination of
Anger:
As she was standing to one side, a devata asked this of
the Blessed One:
Having killed what do you sleep in ease?
Having killed what do you not grieve?
Of the slaying of what one thing does Gotama approve?
The Buddha answered:
Having
slayed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger
you do not grieve.
The Noble ones praise the slaying of anger with its
honey crest & poison root,
for having killed it you do not grieve...
SN 1.71
A FEVER
BURNING
Those absorbed in such accusations as:
"He/she/they abused, hurt, did me or us wrong!"
whether right or wrong, such foolish ones only prolong
own pain
by being obsessed, and thus possessed by their own anger.
However!
Those freed of
all these accusations:
"He/she/they abused, hurt, did me or us wrong!"
just plainly noting: "Whether right or wrong, so what's
the point?"
such clever ones silence their own
suffering by relinquishing all anger.
Dhammapada Illustration 3+4
Background Story 3+4
FUEL ON FIRE?
Not by anger is Hate ever quenched.
Only by Kindness is Hate always quenched.
This Ancient Law is an
eternal and absolute Truth ... !
Dhammapada Illustration 5
Background Story 5
What good does any accusation, whether
right or wrong, do to anybody?
Nothing! On the contrary: It scorches mind from inside, inflames ill-will,
and infects all with hot-headed hate! In short: The way to the
Downfall!
Hate brings great misfortune..
Hate
churns up and harms the mind!
This fearful danger deep within own
mind
most beings do not understand at all..
Itivuttaka 84
Hate, anger, wrath, aversion, irritation, opposition,
and stubbornness are
all cured by regular metta meditation on universal
friendliness:
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz0nE1wRWQY
Audio:
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/metta-meditation
More on The Elimination of Anger:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Slaying_Anger.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/leaves/bl068.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Boiling_but_burnt.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Appeasing_Anger.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hot_Hostile_Hate.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Subduing_Irritation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Anger_and_Irritation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Cruelty_and_Revengefulness.htm
