How Angry Are You?
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I’m at 0 atm, usually not going further than 1.
Considered that 10 should be when you die of anger (if it’s possible), how can you two above 10 (concretely 34 and 100) report your status to us?
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@Gwen-Dragon said in How Angry Are You?:
@Priest72 Discussion on supporting violence is not welcomed here.
i am not supporting it or condoning it..however the point of this thread being....?...anger sometimes leads to violence so this thread is antagonist and baiting.
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Phooey. We with an underlying seething simply refrain from mixing with the source of our anger. That being people.
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Now I'm angry that nobody else is angry.
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@PrivacyMatters Your choice… I prefer not being angry.
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Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. - Buddha
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@pontisto Not a quote from the Buddha, as far as I know, just a quote from a YouTube video made up from various dubious sources. Here is a genuine quote from the Buddhist texts:
Abhāsita Sutta
“Monks, these two slander the Tathāgata. Which two? He who explains what was not said or spoken by the Tathāgata as said or spoken by the Tathāgata. And he who explains what was said or spoken by the Tathāgata as not said or spoken by the Tathāgata. These are two who slander the Tathāgata.” (Abhāsita Sutta, What Was Not Said, Access to Insight) -
I'm never angry, just sometimes desperate. I don't feel like getting angry, besides it almost never makes sense, getting angry is bad for your health and this is absurd to allow it on top of the fact that others already touch your balls. Take it easy, life is short.
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Akkosa Sutta (S.i.161)
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Sanctuary. Then the Brahman Akkosaka Bhāradvajā heard that a Brahman of the Bhāradvajā clan had gone forth from the home life into homelessness in the presence of the Blessed One. Angered and displeased, he went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, insulted and cursed him with rude, harsh words.
When this was said, the Blessed One said to him: “What do you think, Brahman: Do friends and colleagues, relatives and kinsmen come to you as guests?”
“Yes, Master Gotama, sometimes friends and colleagues, relatives and kinsmen come to me as guests.”
“And what do you think: Do you serve them with staple and non-staple foods and delicacies?”
“Yes, sometimes I serve them with staple and non-staple foods and delicacies.”
“And if they don't accept them, to whom do those foods belong?”
“If they don't accept them, Master Gotama, those foods are all mine.”
“In the same way, Brahman, that with which you have insulted me, who is not insulting; that with which you have taunted me, who is not taunting; that with which you have berated me, who is not berating: that I don't accept from you. It's all yours, Brahman. It’s all yours.”
“Whoever returns insult to one who is insulting, returns taunts to one who is taunting, returns a berating to one who is berating, is said to be eating together, sharing company, with that person. But I am neither eating together nor sharing your company, Brahman. It’s all yours. It's all yours.”