
All day purification
This event is part of April 2019 Silent immersion retreat
Show event seriesAnger is not wrong: a lot of people do not understand this.
There is clean anger and the anger that generates directly out of thought. Clean anger goes as quickly as it comes and leaves absolutely no mark. It is always a very pure corrector in this context. The sign is there is no going round and round and round with thoughts inside your head for hours, days or weeks afterwards.
Meanwhile anger generated out of thoughts entrenches a certain viewpoint which all others should or must obey.
There is also a big difference of course between the practical alarm type of anger that protects or guards a boundary ... and the anger which is abusive and seeks to dominate and control.
How do you deal with anger?
The same as any other type of thought. Whether you get angry or not, whether you know what type of anger it was or not ... recognise how you go back into the silence, however disrupted you feel. So no need to try and get rid of the anger and disruption. Just be with it in the silence.
You are already in the purification space and this will speed any reset which needs to take place. Take control: spend time alone to step out of the loop. Just making that action is the key.
Why is this?
Because that action is based on the recognition that anger and thought are not you.
It doesn’t matter if the anger has happened already - rarely if ever do we actually have the power to stop getting angry because it is already happening or has already happened.
We only want to stop or change anger in retrospect - and this is why techniques to stop or change it are so useless and entirely missing the point.
You don’t need to stop or change anger. It naturally leaves all by itself if you don’t claim it as your own in the first place ... and if you have identified with it, it will go away if you recognise it is a species of thought and that thought is not you. It is that recognition which is the point. It is so powerful it starts to push out anger from under its root.
Why is this? Because any act of recognition, occurs with the full force of who you really are, however powerless you may be to stop or change your actions. Every time you step back into the silence, knowing that something has taken place which is not you, you are moving with the force of love that you are. And the force of love deals with everything. It is so strong, nothing unlike it can endure.
You are a force of love. In the purification space, these words will wake up untold mechanisms, activate infinite resources, and bring online the “all of you” rather than that meagre part which fears that maybe all there is, is pain.
You are all doing exceptionally well. You may not feel like that but if you look very closely, you will notice, this is just a thought.
Much love x