‘How frequently you get angry in your life?’
If you get angry rarely, you are quite happy.
If you are angry most of the time, you are quite unhappy.
Anger and happiness can’t go hand in hand.
Anger is a reflection of our weakness and ignorance.
Anger is truly a gateway to hell. Please read this Zen story.
“I want to know about heaven and hell,” said the samurai. “Do they really exist?” he asked Hakuin.
A tough, brawny samurai once approached a Zen master who was deep in meditation.
Impatient and discourteous, the samurai demanded in his husky voice so accustomed to forceful yelling, “Tell me the nature of heaven and hell.”
The Zen master opened his eyes, looked the samurai in the face, and replied with a certain scorn, “Why should I answer to a shabby, disgusting, despondent slob like you? A worm like you, do you think I should tell you anything? I can’t stand you. Get out of my sight. I have no time for silly questions.”
The samurai could not bear these insults. Consumed by rage, he drew his sword and raised it to sever the master’s head at once.
Looking straight into the samurai’s eyes, the Zen master tenderly declared, “That’s hell.”
The samurai froze. He immediately understood that anger had him in its grip. His mind had just created his own hell—one filled with resentment, hatred, self-defense, and fury. He realized that he was so deep in his torment that he was ready to kill somebody.
The samurai’s eyes filled with tears. Setting his sword aside, he put his palms together and obsequiously bowed in gratitude for this insight.
The Zen master gently acknowledged with a delicate smile, “And that’s heaven.”
You get angry when you feel that you have been wronged.
In all such cases, you pretend innocence and consider other people responsible for your misery.
Such feelings are usually the results of your ignorance of the full facts of the case and your lack of understanding of the functioning of the world.
World has no personal enmity or affinity with you.
Just like the laws of gravity applies to all evenly, the laws of the world applies to all evenly.
The laws are not going to change to suit your whims and fancy, nor is going to be applied leniently because you are ignorant.
Most of the people spoil their lifelong relationship and good work due to their moments of anger.
They often repent their outbursts, but they can never heal the wounds given by them in the fit of anger.
Aristotle said wisely, “Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
Anger is a sign of weakness.
The angry people are usually not only unhappy, but also unsuccessful in life, because ignorance is neither a help for happiness nor for success.
-Awdhesh Singh
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