Perhaps anger in itself isn't a bad thing. The issue is whether or not there is ill will behind the anger.
Some people get angry/impatient with people and still wish them the best.
Some people get angry/impatient with people, and want that person to suffer in some way.
Certainly a person wouldn't want to make the mistake of suppressing anger. Doing so could have negative repercussions. Plus you wouldn't want to fool yourself into believing that you're clear of something when you aren't.
On the other hand, eventually (hopefully), when it's our time, we'll all become like Ghandi and Mother Teresa. Actually, I wouldn't be surprissed if Mother Teresa got annoyed on occasion. I don't believe that an evolved being has to act like Spock from Star Trek all the time.
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I like your posts - you have a balanced view of things. I sense that you were a firebrand in your heydey, with a strong spirit, and that you didn't take any nonsense from people. That's a plus in my book.
I don't think PUL expression means that we can't lose our cool or have occasional road rage. Its part of being human. Perhaps enlightened souls like Gandhi or Mother Teresa could continually turn the other cheek, but I'm still not convinced that we must suppress our negative emotions in order to "graduate" to a higher plane of being. You are diffusing the anger by realizing your influences and that there are alternatives to blowing a fuse. I'm not sure, but I don't think expressing PUL means never being angry. That seems a bit BSy to me, like that line in the movie Love Story from the 70s "love is never having to say you're sorry."
I suppose that gets to the heart of this thread. If beliefs block our perceptions and we lose them, let them go, we must fundamentally change, but we are still ourselves. I am Matthew. I have likes and dislikes. I may get annoyed, happy or sad. I may in reality be a form of the creator fooling myself by assuming I am separate and experiencing love, hardship and inspiration in an effort to bring it all back to my creator/me. I should therefore not deny these emotions because my rational mind understands that expressing PUL is a higher way of being.
Bruce and others say that to experience higher planes of existence, to focus our concentration, we must lose outdated beliefs. I know several veterans on this board have done so, and I appreciate everyone's input on how that changed their lives afterward,
Peace,
Matthew