Now,
What is the method of controlling anger?
It is to control the origin of anger.
When we go back and analyze the cause of anger,
Then the cause becomes so unimportant,
The cause becomes so unimportant that all the impact of the anger is lost and there is no anger.
Now,
The process is the same of what Christ said,
But as we explained before,
There is no contradiction.
There is no contradiction,
But just a different way of putting it.
Christ would say it is by understanding the cause of the anger.
Buddha would say control the anger and you can only control the anger if you understand it.
Same thing,
Same thing,
No difference whatsoever.
So essentially,
When we study all religions to its finest level,
The teaching is the same.
Whatever I am telling you today or at any other day,
It is nothing new.
It is nothing new.
I only put forth all teachings,
Perhaps in a way that people gathered here might understand it.
Good.
Fine.
Then again,
Teachings,
The true meaning of teachings have been lost in interpretation.
How many interpreters are so pure enough to really portray or give forth the real meaning of what was said?
I will go back to Sanskrit.
There is one word called Yov.
Now,
Yov has two meanings.
One meaning is barley and the other meaning is sheep.
So,
Some of them got the wrong horn of the bull and started animal sacrifices.
Yes,
They started animal sacrifices at the temple of Kali,
Where the sheep were sacrificed.
What was meant that in those sacrificial fires,
What was given as oblation was supposed to be yow or barley and not the killing of those poor sheep.
So,
We know how language degenerates.
Things that could have meant something really different,
Words that meant really something different,
Mean so,
So different.
Today,
Some words have really taken on the opposite meaning from what they were originally intended to mean.
So,
That is how we find that even interpreters started not only misinterpreting the true meaning of things,
But they also started playing around with words.
And that is how the original meaning of many of our scriptures have been lost.
So,
Here in this case,
Buddha did not mean suppressing it or burying it,
But Buddha meant controlling it,
And which is exactly the same as what Christ had taught.
Giving the other cheek means understanding.
Now,
This very same thing can be applied to all the other emotions,
Not only to anger.
The whole idea is to control.
Now,
When we become more harmonious within ourselves through meditational and spiritual practices,
We are in a better position to control things.
And when we can control things,
Then man is truly a master of his destiny.
Now,
For man to become a master of his destiny,
He must first become a master of himself.
He must gain mastery,
Which gradually comes to people,
Mastery over his emotions,
Over his thoughts,
Over his attitudes,
Etc.
And when one has some form of mastery over them,
Then naturally destiny looks after itself.
It's automatically controlled.
