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Show Notes
The faults of anger:
- We become unhappy and uncomfortable
- Makes us lose our reason and good sense
- Destroys relationships
- Karmic cause of future ugliness and makes us appear unattractive in the moment
- Destroys good karma
The section on the divisions of patience has three parts:
- Developing the patience of disregarding harm done to you
- Developing the patience of accepting suffering
- Developing the patience of certitude about the teachings
Two ways to give up anger and disregard harm done to you
- See that that anger is unjustified
- Feel that compassion is appropriate
The one who keeps anger in check as it arises
As one would a careening chariot,
I call a charioteer.
Others are merely rein-holders. (Verse 222)
—Buddha, The Dhammapada