SHOULD WE GET ANGRY?

 

 

 

Our daily life is very rich in thoughts and emotions, giving us the impression that we are experiencing all kinds of good or bad situations.

We can’t really see our experiences, because our view is obstructed by the conditioning of our mind.

We might have asked ourselves, repeatedly: “Why this keeps happening to me?”, in regard to bad, unpleasant experiences; those kind of situations that make us angry and upset.

We must find the reason why we seem to be locked in a repeated cycle of suffering causing experiences.

Should we get angry? Should we ignore the entire experience, and get interested only in our anger?

We are superimposing our anger, our reaction, over the real experience.

We are saving this anger in our memory, and we are using it next time, as a reaction to a bad experience.

So, next time we are not going to experience anything else but our own memory.

 

“You will learn much more by asking yourself what exactly is an experience.

Do we ever really experience a situation or do we experience only our reactions to it?
                                                                                                             Jean Klein

 

We are always reacting to any situation, and then we get absorbed in our own reaction, in our thoughts, emotions and feelings.

We are taking only a short, superficial look at the experience, and then, our ego, is taking over.

Our minds are programmed to react in the same way that we have previously reacted:

 

“In order to fully experience anything the mind must be empty, free from memory-emotivity, gain and expectation.
What we call experience is generally the repetition of sensation or the projections of memory. "
                                                                                                                       Jean Klein

 

As human beings, we have to experience suffering too, but we should not become identified with this suffering.

We should watch with detachment the experience and the experiencer, and the experience will unfold.

We have to try to see what happens if we don’t distract ourselves from the experience by getting angry.

We have to try to really experience something, not to suffer the experience.

So, should we get angry?

No, not anymore.