To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/09/03 00:31
Subject: Re: [K-list] Blockages, Anger
From: Martin Thompson
On 1999/09/03 00:31, Martin Thompson posted thus to the K-list:
15:57:42 Wed, 1 Sep 1999
alingimp at alingimp <alingimpATnospamhome.com> writes:
>That's anger on a different level, removed from any pettishness. The
>question is: How to distinguish between righteous anger and petty anger,
>when it comes to ourselves? I dare say, most of the times when someone gets
>angry, it is the pettish kind, just a lot of hot air blowing.
>>
As you said in the bit I snipped, you can handle your petty anger in
your shop. So you know what it is in a predictable environment - you
will probably learn to generalise that with time.
But sometimes, it is OK to be angry, even over petty things: people need
to know when to lay off and you need to defend your space sometimes.
>Angeliqe wrote:
>Look at great leaders, and you will find most often,
>>that their original motivation to get them up off their butts, was anger.
>>> Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, .. labor unions, the human rights
>>movement, the Vietnam protesters.. Righteous anger, that sometimes goes
>>beyond this lifetime..
>Isn't the ultimate motivation of these people compassion in the end?
All anger can be looked at as a form of love: people get angry when the
thing they love/want is blocked/hindered. Anger brings up energy to deal
with the blockage - not always in the most constructive way, but
learning to channel that energy is part of life's process.
An insect attacks you, you get angry as you love yourself and don't want
to be harmed. Someone insults your friend... and so on.
> I mean,
>it's easy to be angry and in your anger to be (self)destructive but in the
>end I believe it has to be transformed to be useful, as people like Martin
>Luther King whom you mentioned, prove.
So use it constructively then! When you want to work on some project,
think angrily about what that project will help you solve. (E.g., Rats!
I'm fed up with not having enough money! I'm going to work smarter from
now on...)
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