12 Sep '12 09:57>
"All anger is a fetter to realization." (From a Buddhist site).
Is it?
Is it?
Originally posted by TaomanYes I would imagine the suppression of 'constructive' or 'instinctive' anger would be as much a fetter to realization as an over reliance on it.
Perhaps saying "anger can be a fetter to realization" may be better?
'Is" and "All" are problem words.
My view:
Realisation doesn't suppress anger or remove it. It helps one to see how everything is part of everything else, including anger - and essentially how insisting on a self and clinging to a self that doesn't ultimately exist is the root of suf ...[text shortened]... ng around with a beatific smile on our faces is just an illusion.” ~Maggie Lyons~
Originally posted by kevcvs57An interesting thought that bears mulling over.
Yes I would imagine the suppression of 'constructive' or 'instinctive' anger would be as much a fetter to realization as an over reliance on it.
Is it not more a case of excessive anger being a symptom or marker for not having achieved 'realization' rather than a barrier in itself?
Originally posted by TaomanDoes this suggest that more generally the emotions or at least certain ones are a hindrance to something important, that thing called realization?
"All anger is a fetter to realization." (From a Buddhist site).
Is it?
Originally posted by JS357Realization happens of itself.
Does this suggest that more generally the emotions or at least certain ones are a hindrance to something important, that thing called realization?
Another way of putting it would have such emotions being of some service.
Would "acceptance" be a companion to realization?
Originally posted by TaomanGood, good, good.
Realization happens of itself.
Hindering is trying too hard.
Buddha was trying too hard.
'You' are 'there' right now.
Always have been.
Its not 'mystical' either.
A viewpoint shift.
"I see" becomes just "seeing"
- without the "I".
Trying hard is the opposite of what is needed.
Relax, things will look after themselves.
Do what seems best at ...[text shortened]... e antidote is in the poison.
fear not, it works
...usually, well, sometimes.