So,
Now fear and anger are blood brothers.
Anger comes about the basis of anger.
The inner core of anger is normally fear.
We become angry because we fear something.
A man becomes angry with his wife because he fears within himself that the wife has done something wrong.
Good.
What does that show?
What is the cause of that fear?
It is a form of insecurity or a feeling of inadequacy.
And that is why he fears,
He feels insecure.
Insecurity breeds fear and that fear in turn breeds anger.
So all these negative qualities are all interrelated.
All positive qualities are interrelated too.
There are only two things,
Positive and negative.
And within those categories fall all these various kinds of emotions.
Right.
So,
When the man becomes fearless and fears nothing,
He has no cause left for anger.
Good.
Because he realizes that the anger is just superficial.
And we all know how long anger can last.
He can be angry for five minutes,
Ten minutes,
One day,
Two days,
But he just cannot be angry forever.
And if you are angry for longer than three days continuously,
You will very quickly reach the asylum.
Yes,
This is true.
This is true.
Because the power generated by that anger would be so powerful that it will disturb the entire chemistry of the brain.
Anger contains within itself a very high voltage.
And that voltage,
That very high voltage will blow you up.
And that is how you land up in an asylum.
So therefore,
Even in our anger,
You'd find the anger lasting for a certain period of time.
And after that,
Another emotion will occur that will counterbalance the anger.
Good.
So,
If we have that within us,
Which we gradually gain through our meditational practices,
That we assess and evaluate a situation at its fullest value.
We see the whole range,
And no place for anger exists.
And it is only the man who do not feel the anger.
He is the one that could,
Say,
That could turn his cheek and say smack if you want to.
And nine and three quarter times out of ten,
When you turn the other cheek,
You will produce a kind of kindness in the attacker that he will not slap the other cheek.
See how it works.
That feeling you have within you,
That fearlessness that you have within you,
That kindness you have within you is very,
Very contagious.
Oh yes,
It can infect the whole environment.
So,
There is no place for anger.
And it is only the man of strength that can turn the other cheek.
Good.
Now we come to the question of suppressing anger.
Good.
That according to modern psychology could become very dangerous.
Because any form of suppression,
Any form of suppression,
Can lead to various forms of inhibitions.
And anything which is suppressed,
Like a weed that is buried,
Will definitely shoot out again.
Never mind how deep you bury it,
It will still erupt as a weed again.
So,
That anger which is suppressed,
Will manifest itself in some form or the other.
A person used to suppressing his anger,
Might develop some form of psychosomatic disease.
And psychosomatic diseases can in turn affect the whole physical organism.
So suppression is not to be advocated.
Good.
As I said,
And I repeat again,
That it can cause so many different kinds of inhibitions.
And all inhibitions are never evolutionary.
They can be very destructive.
So we do not suppress anger.
Now,
When our friend used the word suppression,
I know exactly what he means.
Because Buddha never meant suppression.
Buddha never meant suppression.
But because of the difficulties of translation,
Words get used.
There are so many words in the Pali language or the Sanskrit language,
That are beyond all translations.
They just cannot be translated.
Even there are certain Sanskrit sounds,
That cannot be spoken in English.
Fine.
I give an example of,
Say the letter S.
Now in Sanskrit we have four S's.
In English we have one S.
Good.
I'll demonstrate.
I'll tell you about them.
S,
S,
K,
K.
We don't have it in English.
In the English language we have 26 letters in the alphabet,
While in Sanskrit we have 51.
We will try something more.
B.
Right.
We only know of B.
But in Sanskrit you would have B,
B.
You see the difference.
How Sanskrit language was conceived and that,
Well that's a different subject altogether.
Nevertheless,
Even sound cannot be brought forth in another language.
And even if we take English itself,
There are many forms of it.
For example,
A poem.
You rewrite the poem in prose and the beauty of the poem is lost.
You might convey the meaning,
But the sound value that really touches you,
That really affects you in some way or the other,
Would be lost.
So Buddha never meant suppression of anger.
What Buddha meant was control of anger.
Buddha meant control of anger.
