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Recieved: 1999/09/13 06:12
Subject: Re: [K-list] anger's functions
From: Martin Thompson

On 1999/09/13 06:12, Martin Thompson posted thus to the K-list:

16:02:45 Sun, 12 Sep 1999
Adele Chatelain at Adele Chatelain <chatelaaATnospamwharton.upenn.edu> writes:
> Back to Buddhism for a moment: This problem is exactly
>what Buddha was talking about. Even in the Tibetan Tantric
>practices that use every day emotions on the path toward
>Enlightenment, WARN that using anger in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER
>is very, very dangerous. It's dangerous because it is
>like Fire; it will begin as a match flame and will soon
>engulf one (actually he said something like, "The eye,
>o prieses, is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness
>is one fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire..."
>and so on). He was referring to how QUICKLY ANY
>impression/emotion
>can burst into flame/anger.
> And fire, as we all know, as consume that person
>who indulges in it.
>
> So...to me, our Western idea of anger must be looked
>at very carefully, rather than the way it is looked at
>currently ('it's ok to be angry') in our culture.
>
I think that fire is a good analogy to anger. Yes, anger can be usefully
turned to action, but yes, also, it must be kept under control or it
will use *any* means to reach its goal, even subconscious ones.

Just as our civilization needed the invention of fire to get going, so
we treat fire with respect and have a Fire Department to control it.
Anger can generate movement to, but where is your Anger Department to
keep your anger positive?
--
Martin Thompson martinATnospamtucana.demon.co.uk
London, UK
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