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Controlling Anger part 1

Title: Controlling Anger part 1
Category: Good Conduct
Duration: 10 minutes, 4 seconds
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Date Given: May 28, 2002
Date Posted: June 20, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha

Cybertalk: In part one of a talk on anger, Bodhinatha speaks of the various levels of difficulty people have with this instinctive state of consciousness. Gurudeva gave some very useful suggestions and remedies in this area. Anger expresses itself in different people in different ways. Usually someone is calm, and they lose it once in a while. Others lose it all the time; they're always upset about something. Others are selective--they're nice to everybody except a few people, such as their spouse. Gurudeva says a lot about anger in his Master Course Trilogy. Gurudeva's core point on anger is that it's the most difficult fault for people to overcome because it comes in so many different forms. Gurudeva drew on the eight forms of anger from the book "Angry All the Time." The ladder of anger goes all the way from the most subtle "sneaky anger" to the last rung, blind rage. Bodhinatha remarks that it's amazing how important Gurudeva thinks swearing is, as he wrote an entire chapter about it in Living with Siva. Swearing is the fourth rung on the ladder of violence. Bodhinatha talks about how swearing creates a negative force, a balloon of negative energy, around a person which stirs the lower chakras and ruins their life.


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