How to origin of Anger

Anger is one of the three basic ‘poisons’ discussed by the Buddha. Ignorance and greed are the other two. Generally, the Three Poisons operate together. They feed off each other, justify each other and create the conditions which lead to their malefic reappearances. They create the karma that binds us the lower awareness typical of this saha world. The Three Poisons are sometimes also called “the three fires” because they make our minds burn and rage with ignorance like a tire out of control. Sometimes they are also called “the three diseases” because they bring harm to sentient beings and force them to remain long within the cycle of birth and death.

The Abhidharmakosha and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi Shastra both say that anger is a condition in which the mind rolls with trouble and cannot find peace because it has turned its back on wisdom and its claws against others. Anger comes in many forms; resentment, hatred, jealousy, cruelty, abuse, taking delight in the misfortunes of others. Angers has many names, but essentially it is always caused by a deluded belief that the illusory self has lost control over something that is important to it. This loss of control produces an ignorant rage during which we attempt to restore whatever equilibrium we thought should have been there. If this rage happens in the moment, we call it anger or fury. If it burns more slowly over a longer period of time, we call it hatred of jealousy of resentment. The cause is always the same; the illusion has been threatened and rather than learn it effects to harm.

The Buddha said that anger was one of the five Hindrances. The five Hindrances are moods or states of mind that make it difficult for us o learn the Dharma. They are anger, desire, drowsiness, excitability, and doubt. The Buddha also said that anger is one of the five Envoys of stupidity. The five Stupidity are greed, anger, ignorance, pride and doubt.

Buddhism recognizes three kinds of anger:

1) Anger for no reason. This form of anger arises within the mind even through nothing has comes outside to provoke it. This kind of anger grows out of seeds already planted within the alaya-consciousness.

2) Anger with some reason. This form of anger arises after someone has done something to “cause” it. This kind of anger is produced when a seed of anger in the alaya-consciousness is stimulated to grow by other conditions.

3) Dialectical anger. This form of anger arises when someone disagrees with us. It is produced the same way as anger with some reason.

Anger is a form of suffering peculiar to the realm of desire (karma-dhatu). In rupadhatu (the realm of form) and arupdhatu (the realm of formlessness) there is no anger.

Anger is distinguished from greed in that anger is a form of revulsion created by something we do not like, while greed is a form of attraction brought on by something we do like. In this limited sense, and in this sense only, greed can be said to be “better than” anger. Greed at least has some positive components while anger generally has none at all.