09-23-2019, 06:28 PM
(09-23-2019, 04:43 PM)Ruby Wrote: Thank you Loki. I love these discussions of practical applications in real life scenarios.
I think Ra's admonishment to lean into anger, to add a few sticks to the fire, suggests that there is nothing wrong with anger itself. It is like rough weather that blows through the emotional landscape. Much like a storm, you do not ask for it and you prefer sun. But it happens, its a part of the structure you occupy at this moment. This you creature reacts to unfairness. You have good company. Jesus lost his s*** in the temple one day. Much good has arisen from people who found cruelty intolerable.
Perhaps the problem with anger is the aftermath, the shame, self loathing, and embarrasment. That's what inflicts the real and lasting damage. So Ra says, turn that anger into a bonfire. Dont bury it, hide it, lie about it, ignore it, drink it into submission or give it undue attention beyond its moment. Ra says own it and forgive yourself. Hey, if full blown sociopaths are moving along that negative path with a spring in their step, surly you and I dont have to apologize for the anger we feel when a dog gets kicked or a nation gets plundered.
<My anger is more the result of social injustice and less because I have anger management issue. I just want a society where abusers and vicious pay for their way of interacting with other humans instead of being rewarded for it. And this is the type of catalyst I cannot deal with other than keeping it inside.>
Hey Ruby thanks for your replay. This make sense finally. I do get embarrassed if I confront an abuser violently but usually I don't confront them and frankly I suspect myself of cowardliness sometimes because I don't. I am aware about my anger I do not blame myself for it but I feel bad having it in me and frustrates the hell out of me. Frustrates me the fact that the world is unfair and the fact that I care. More I carry this anger with me more I isolate myself from others. This idea that it is OK to be yourself regardless of what this means to others do not make me more understanding but rather more distrustful with human race. From Ra's explanation I understood that there is a way to make something useful out of this anger. But I guess the only thing I could do is accept it and own it.
Ra doesn't seem to find much value in objectivity and he believe subjectivity is more valuable. From One Creator perspective I do believe a subjective point of view is more interesting because enriches experience, but from my short life marked by getting old and forgetting everything subjectivity is not a noble stance. Subjectivity for me is somehow related to service to yourself and objectivity to service to others.
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