Anger

[Yamabushi]

Anger is a defensive mechanism and therefor founded in the Ego. Anger is part of the brain's sympathetic response system. Anger is just fear.

When I get angry I sit with my anger and ask "Dear Anger, what are you trying to warn me about? How am I in danger? Thank you for looking out for me, but I am alright. You may stay if you like or you may go. If you stay I will make us tea."

Gassho,

-Jared
(Sat Today)

[Prashanth]

Anger is a defensive mechanism and therefor founded in the Ego. Anger is part of the brain's sympathetic response system. Anger is just fear.

When I get angry I sit with my anger and ask "Dear Anger, what are you trying to warn me about? How am I in danger? Thank you for looking out for me, but I am alright. You may stay if you like or you may go. If you stay I will make us tea."

Gassho,

-Jared
(Sat Today)

If I may ask a question:
In your profession (your profile says Police Officer) you must be confronting a lot of anger, be it from perpetrators, victims, or fellow officers, almost each day. How is it like, being a Soto Zen practitioner, to be at close quarters with such dimensions of anger?

gassho [emoji120]
sat

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