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First of all I’ll just speak a little bit about anger.
And anger and hatred go together
and they’re a very important afflictive state
because
they are the platform for
the resolution of anger and hatred is the platform
for opening up all kinds of other beneficial potencies.
Until we have completely
resolved anger and hatred
another word for it is “outshone” anger and hatred
we don’t have an opening in intelligence for
many of our beneficial potencies.
The first
afflictive state we need to resolve is lack of education in
our intelligence, which is always opening.
So all of you now have at least a basic education.
And then
resolution of anger and hatred.
Now, most of us
have been taught from early on to
keep our anger and hatred at bay.
Now, some of us have anger and hatred as our most predominant
afflictive state.
And so we might just not even think before we snap into
an angry mode.
And
that would be indulgence of anger.
Or if we are a little bit more introspective, we might avoid it.
We can feel that burning anger surging up within us, but
we say, “No, I’m not going to go that way, I’m going to avoid it and I'll
do whatever I need to do.” Go out and take a walk, or
have a glass a water
look at myself in the mirror with my face all twisted and contorted with anger, or
replace the anger
and hatred with something else, like
doing virtuous deeds or whatever it might be.
But all of those ways of handling anger and hatred
only neutralize anger and hatred, which means that
just in the moment when we need
resolution of anger and hatred most, it’s going to pop up again.
If it’s neutralized, it will pop up again.
Only through its complete resolution and outshining
by letting it be as it is over and over again
seeing it resolve, seeing it self-release in the here and now
within yourself without indulging, avoiding or replacing
only in that way do you see what’s beyond
indulging, avoiding and replacing. And what is beyond
indulgence, avoiding and replacing is opening. More and more beneficial opening.
If we stay contrived and contracted in the narrow, narrow
conduct-space of indulgence, avoidance and replacement
then
we'll always feel the squeeze.
Yesterday I was talking about it like a trash compactor.
We'll always feel the squeeze.
By letting it be as it is, what happens? We relax completely.
No matter what is going on, we're completely relaxed.
I have people say to me, “Oh, you must be so uptight
you have so much stress
a worldwide organization doing all these things, traveling all over.”
I feel completely relaxed. I feel like I’m not doing anything.
But it isn’t just a matter of being relaxed that is within
the vast open space of our opening intelligence.
Inexhaustible opening intelligence.
It is also the potency of our beneficial capacity.
The potency of our spontaneous beneficial capacity.
So, with anger and hatred -
anger and hatred have many extremes.
And I always talk about the extremes of bigotry on the one hand, which is
hatred and anger towards a specific group
of people or
the other extreme in anger is something that
most people don’t even recognize or pay attention to and that is sarcasm
which is the lowest form of wit
and it is also anger in disguise.
So, whenever sarcasm pops up
just take a look
see what’s really going on and
very often, “I love you” would be a perfect replacement.
Sarcasm, we have all been the victims of sarcasm, so to speak.
We’ve all felt the screw go right into our heart
when someone exercises
that kind of thing in our presence. And we may laugh it off
and try to join in the fun so to speak
but we feel the piercing anger
and hatred that is in the statement, whatever it is.
I bring up these two extremes, because as you can see, there are many things in between
And this is what I have found by letting anger and hatred be as it is.
By letting all anger and hatred be as it is, all
extremes and everything within the extremes
of anger and hatred by allowing it to be as it is
there is no anger and hatred any longer.
There is only beneficial potency, spontaneous beneficial potency.
So there's no active work to get rid of anything.
Anger and hatred, it’s experiencing all of anger and hatred, not only
my own, but that of everyone.
So, any moment that I may have felt angry
there are millions of other people at that very same moment
feeling the very same thing, because we have all been trained
so precisely, through whatever our dogmatic system is
Whether it's original sin or karma and reincarnation or whatever it is.
We treat ourselves like damaged goods
that need to be fixed. But we don’t need to be fixed.
Our beneficial potency, all of our
ability to relax and be totally at ease
is right here in whatever it is right now.
Whatever it is right now.
And just letting it be as it is right now.
Spontaneously self-releasing right now.
The here and now is spontaneously self-releasing.
There’s no way to keep it in place. No way to analyze it
no way to measure it, no way to recreate it
and so spontaneously self-releasing. We can prove that to ourselves right here.
That’s a little snippet on anger and hatred, but
it covers the broad scope
of anger and hatred and normalizes it
gives us a permission field
to
experience ourselves as we actually are
without constantly slapping ourselves on the hand or worse.
We let ourselves be as we are.
And for each of us that is unique.
And so you see, just as unique as each of us is individually
our beneficial potencies are that unique as well.
Our strengths, gifts and talents are as unique
as well.
So it isn’t a matter of trying to get everyone
rowing with the same oar.
If everyone rowed with one oar, well
that wouldn’t be much fun at all.
We’d go round in circles.
By each of us so uniquely letting everything be as it is
what opens up is our wonderful beneficial potencies.
And so first, the resolution of lack of education in the nature of our own mind
the nature of intelligence, and everyone here now knows what that is.
What the basis of your intelligence is, it’s
present whether there’s thought or no thought
and the resolution of anger and hatred
that is the platform for
all beneficial potencies.