| Anger arises when we have a different point of view | | | | perfection; that is why you are angry at imperfections. |
| as compared with the other people who are dealing in | | | | Keep a space of imperfections in your life. If you leave |
| our life, and it is the only thing from which everyone | | | | some holes of imperfection, then you will see that your |
| wants to get rid and want to get there life free from it. | | | | ability to hold anger becomes much greater. The |
| Every sincere seeker wants to get rid of anger and | | | | cause of anger is the lack of total knowledge of what |
| reach a state of perfection, but is often swept by his | | | | is happening inside that person. Even when someone |
| or her emotions. What can you do when anger rises in | | | | commits a mistake, know that he or she is not the |
| you? You may remind yourself a hundred times that | | | | culprit; the stress inside is causing him or her to make |
| you shouldn't get angry, but when it comes, you are | | | | that mistake. Showing anger itself is not wrong, but |
| unable to control it. Emotions are much more powerful | | | | being unaware of your anger hurts you. There is a |
| than your thoughts and the promises you make. Anger | | | | place for showing anger, but when you get angry |
| is a distortion of our true nature. We call it a distortion | | | | without awareness, what happens to you? You are |
| because it doesn't allow the self to shine forth fully. | | | | shaken completely. |
| And this is what sin is. Anger is a sin because when | | | | Look at the consequences of getting angry. Spiritual |
| you are angry, you lose your centeredness; your focus | | | | practices help you maintain your centeredness and not |
| is not on the infinite. You are limiting yourself to the | | | | be shaken by small events. This is where a little |
| small mind to an action which has happened. | | | | knowledge about us, about our mind, our |
| Sin is just the wrinkle in the cloth. It needs proper | | | | consciousness, and the root of distortion in our nature |
| ironing. Anger is a sign of weakness. It takes a while to | | | | will help. Our breath has a great lesson to teach us, |
| raise the temper of a bodybuilder while a weak person | | | | which we have forgotten. Breathing techniques and |
| can get angry very fast. Often anger comes because | | | | meditation are very effective in calming the mind. |
| you don't accept the present moment and get stuck in | | | | Usually, you give your anger freely and your smile |
| the past. Have you ever observed that all your anger | | | | rarely as though a smile is expensive. In ignorance, |
| is about something which has already happened? Is it | | | | anger is cheap and a smile is costly. In knowledge, a |
| of any use getting angry about something which has | | | | smile is free - like the sun shine and air - and anger is |
| passed and you cannot alter? No, it is meaningless. | | | | extremely expensive, like a diamond. Make your smile |
| Anger comes when one seeks too much of | | | | cheaper and anger expensive. |