Dealing With Anger
How do we deal with anger? We must have a healthy way of coping with it. Repressing the anger we feel only leads to a volcanic explosion somewhere later. In my view, we cannot simply choose to try to hide it. It is inside of us, waiting to come out, waiting for the opportunity to show itself. Meditation helps but just thinking about whether our anger is going to help or not is what we need to ask ourselves. Usually, the answer is no. Anger may make us briefly feel better as we ‘let off steam’, but the steam can burn us or someone we care about. Every moment spent in anger is a moment spent away from tranquility and the path we seek to walk. Peace lies not in the world, but in one who walks the path. Learning to deal with anger keeps us peaceful even when things happen that we do not like.
