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The Avatamsaka Sutra says, “Of all forms of evil, there is none worse then anger. A single moment of anger can be an enormous obstruction to growth.”
The Fayuan Chulin says, “Anger causes the loss of all goodness as it causes the beginning of all evil. Anger ruins the joy of the Dharma, steals the goodness of the mind, and forces the mouth to say terrible things. Anger is like the blade of an ax.”
Anger is one of the greatest obstructions to the successful study of Buddhism. Anger is a form of passionate ignorance. It is hard enough to learn when we are simply ignorant, but how can we ever learn if we are passionate in our ignorance ? Only a quite and receptive mind can learn. A mind can raging with fire only burns its own fuel. For this reason, Buddha often counseled his followers to beware of anger. All of us must learn to control and overcome anger.
The Sutra of Bequeathed Teachings says;
Anger can ruin all good practices and it is not soon
Forgotten, it is attractive neither in the present not when
Viewed later as something belonging to the pat, When
Anger begins burning out of control like a raging fire,
Protect yourself and do not let it consume you. Like a
Thief this fire will take away everything you have. There
Is nothing worse than anger,
The Mahaprajnaparamita Shastra says :
Anger should be thought of as the worse of all
transgressions. It is the most Poisons.
Of the ninety-eight defilements, it is the most stubborn.
It is the most difficult mental diseases of all to cure.
A person in the midst of anger cannot see what is right;
he understands neither the difference between good and
evil nor the difference between helping and hurting.
He has lost control of himself and begun to fall toward the
hell realm.
The Saddharma Smriti Upasthana Sutra says that anger is like a poisonous snake, like a knife blade, like fire. The Sutra says that wise people should do all they can to overcome anger.
The Boddhisattvabhumi Shastra says that anyone who is often angry will almost certainly fall into one of the lower three realms of wxistence (hell, hungry, ghosts, animals). If they are reborn in the human realm then they will suffer both of the following two problems:
1) they will often be victims of other people’s fault-finding and criticism, and
2) they will often be troubled and bothered by other people and will find little or no peace in their lives.
The Fayuan Chulin says, “Anger causes the loss of all goodness as it causes the beginning of all evil. Anger ruins the joy of the Dharma, steals the goodness of the mind, and forces the mouth to say terrible things. Anger is like the blade of an ax.”
Anger is one of the greatest obstructions to the successful study of Buddhism. Anger is a form of passionate ignorance. It is hard enough to learn when we are simply ignorant, but how can we ever learn if we are passionate in our ignorance ? Only a quite and receptive mind can learn. A mind can raging with fire only burns its own fuel. For this reason, Buddha often counseled his followers to beware of anger. All of us must learn to control and overcome anger.
The Sutra of Bequeathed Teachings says;
Anger can ruin all good practices and it is not soon
Forgotten, it is attractive neither in the present not when
Viewed later as something belonging to the pat, When
Anger begins burning out of control like a raging fire,
Protect yourself and do not let it consume you. Like a
Thief this fire will take away everything you have. There
Is nothing worse than anger,
The Mahaprajnaparamita Shastra says :
Anger should be thought of as the worse of all
transgressions. It is the most Poisons.
Of the ninety-eight defilements, it is the most stubborn.
It is the most difficult mental diseases of all to cure.
A person in the midst of anger cannot see what is right;
he understands neither the difference between good and
evil nor the difference between helping and hurting.
He has lost control of himself and begun to fall toward the
hell realm.
The Saddharma Smriti Upasthana Sutra says that anger is like a poisonous snake, like a knife blade, like fire. The Sutra says that wise people should do all they can to overcome anger.
The Boddhisattvabhumi Shastra says that anyone who is often angry will almost certainly fall into one of the lower three realms of wxistence (hell, hungry, ghosts, animals). If they are reborn in the human realm then they will suffer both of the following two problems:
1) they will often be victims of other people’s fault-finding and criticism, and
2) they will often be troubled and bothered by other people and will find little or no peace in their lives.
