Today we're talking about Let Go of a Grudge.
When we are angry it is because we feel separate.
When we think someone has wronged us and we hold onto that anger,
We create the false feeling of separation.
But of course we are one.
If you know what you're angry about,
Let go of the grudge and let it be.
If you're not sure what you're angry about,
Ask the universe to show you.
It is normal to feel anger from time to time.
The problem comes when we hold onto it,
The universe.
So here's the key to this teaching.
If you know what you're angry about,
Let go of the grudge.
If you know what you're angry about.
But a lot of times when we're mad at somebody or some situation or something we felt was unfair or uncalled for,
We don't always have a complete picture of why we're angry.
Now obviously,
You know,
Psychology is going to turn to what is the root trauma.
Usually it's your parents because you know,
You're the small child then and those are the people influencing you.
But sometimes it's something else.
Sometimes it's some event that's been traumatic and then the thing you become angry about takes you back to that event.
So it can be incredibly useful to get down to the root and see if you can go farther than this immediate trigger that's showing up.
Usually if you find yourself angry at a lot of events or a lot of people all the time,
It's really useful to look at that as a pattern,
A pattern that's informing you about yourself and then really see if you can get down to the root of,
Okay,
I'm angry at this person,
I'm angry at that person,
I'm angry at this situation and also I'm angry at this.
And let's look at how these all tie together or how they relate to each other.
What part of me is involved with all of these?
And then you can often when you do this and I like to do this as a meditation on what is the root of this issue.
Keep going deeper and deeper and deeper until you realize,
Oh,
The root is and here's the answer,
We feel separate.
We feel separate from the universe when we feel angry.
The importance of letting go of a grudge is this idea of anger is drinking the poison or something along those lines.
We think we're poisoning someone else but we're really,
We're drinking the poison and letting go of the grudge,
It's the only way to get free.
We don't do it to be so-called good.
We don't do it because it's morally better.
We don't do it because we want to be better people.
We let go of a grudge because then we free ourselves.
It's a little bit of a,
Almost a self-serving practice in some ways.
We let go of the grudge because we don't want to be tied by the grudge,
By those feelings.
Anger is pretty,
Pretty prevalent in this society right now,
Especially social media has given rise to a kind of rudeness and rage that we have not been aware was in the world culture.
And so it's a great opportunity to look at this question of anger and how you relate to anger and how you deal with your own anger.
Finding out if there's a root for all your anger or different roots for different aspects of your anger and just exploring it and realizing,
You know,
Again,
You don't want to drink poison and so it's just to your benefit to have a different relationship with anger and how you feel it and how you express it and how you carry it so that you can be more free.
