July 19, 2009
- Anger -
Anger is caused by allowing something to take away your joy-in-the-present-moment. The thing is though, that’s never really possible. That kind of abiding joy, that happiness-of-presence, is always right here-now, but the anger tricks you into thinking that it can only be found somewhere beyond your current state. The angrier you are, the easier it is to place that happiness in some other state and keep it there. Because you couldn’t possibly be happy when your this angry!
Yet that happiness is never “there”; it’s always “here”.
Let go of that phantom of happiness-found-only-elsewhere, accept that experience of anger, and understand that the joy-of-now is present all along, underneath that anger. Once you find that, then begin to work on breaking down the conditioning, created and strengthened in those original fires of anger, that made you mistakenly believe that you could ever find joy anywhere “out there”.
Learn how to cultivate it here instead, in any state, under any emotion.
