Buddha - Drop Your Pride, Overcome Anger

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In this video, I talk about the Buddha, Buddhism, flourishing, justice, anger, and how to overcome it.

In The Dhammapada, Buddha says that a wise man is beyond anger and that anger leads to sorrow, and I explored this idea more deeply through a dialogue. I was interested in the complete elimination of anger from the mind, and here’s where I’ve arrived.

The root of anger is pride. Pride is the belief that the world “should” be a certain way. Pride is believing that people “should” conform to my expectations of them. So when I’m prideful, I constantly think, you shouldn’t do that. And this thought leads to anger, anger leads to alienation, and alienation leads to sorrow. But when you drop pride, you drop your expectations of the world, and when you drop your expectations of the world, you see the world as it is, and when you see the world as it is, your understanding of it improves, and it’s only through understanding that we can move towards true justice—the mutual flourishing of all things.

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(1) Videos are just my opinion, for entertainment and informational purposes. Just some things to think about—not advice.

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[RGE_Music]

As someone who struggled heavily with
Anger in the past its okay to get mad. Its what you do when you are mad that defines everything

[thechancellor-]

To the *incredible person* seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.

[gdibble]

“Fear is the path to the dark side … fear leads to _anger_ … _anger_ leads to hate … hate leads to suffering.” --Yoda 😉

[AnishJoseph]

"When you let go expectations, your mind can see the world for what it is, and when you see the world for what it is, your mind gets better at predicting, and when your mind gets better at predicting, you get better at navigating the world, and when you get better at navigating the world, you can find your way to true justice."

[cheyennealvis]

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to wrath. And wrath leads to suffering.

[Slothmymango]

I've been really trying to regain my mindset prior to my mom's death last year and catching up on these videos is a great help thank you

[Yellowsnow]

It takes courage to drop expectations and pride. This empowers us and makes life more feasible. Courage is the next level of consciousness in David Hawkins Power Vs. Force. Thank you for these videos. You do great work!

[asikdesigns]

Every friday morning after getting my bus to my office... My first thing to do this watching the weekly videos of your channel. It give us the way for solve every problems we facing day by day. Thank you mentor ♥️☺️💪🏾

[uldiskevers]

I have come to situation in my life where “I can water the tree but the tree will not give me fruits because it is already dead” at first it made me angry, because I invested so much effort, but received nothing… During this video I realized that I’m attached to my investment, and therefore I thought that I deserve the “fruit” by default. I know that any kind of attachment will lead to suffering. Even if not directly but thanks for reminding to me that.

[gracebyChrist]

i cant.. finish watching..
i can't let go of this Anger
rooted in UNFAIR treatment
i need justice, i need fairness

but.. i can't do anything about it now 😔
i feel stepped on

[TheDhammaHub]

Anger is surely one of the biggest hindrances to any form of success out there. First, get rid of the worst hindrances, and then the good things will almost happen automatically!

[brendyn]

What about social expectations? There are certain things that majority of people agree on. You can't help yourself from feeling angry, it's how you recognize and react to the anger that's important.

[ArvinRosales]

my anger is about to take over me, so i decided to listen to something. luckily, i stumbled upon your video. thank you for sharing words of wisdom from buddah

[EYE]

I literally was discussing this today with my husband about my own anger in expectations. This is super synchronized for me lol. Thanks 😊

[annettehansen]

I have always struggled with anger, resentments, and unforgiveness. I have been working on it with a therapist and 12 step sponsor, and it is getting better. I was told that resentments only hurt you, not the wrongdoers. I had to write down my resentments and how they affected me to see the damage to motivate me to let go. I also had to write down my part in the resentments so I could see where i was in the wrong, make amends, change behaviors, build my character and reconcile relationships if appropriate. Obviously there are some situations you don't play a part like if you were abused. I really get into psychology and human behavior so I like to understand why people act how they do for example mental illness. It helps to have compassion on them and to wish them well. This is NOT justifying or condoning it just helps to understand, have compassion, and wish them well. Its also not good to get revenge, not only because of consequence but they will get their karma and there will be justice. If it motivates them to change and make amends be happy for them.

[ajithtelugupodcast]

Positive emotions and negative emotions both have equal importance to live life

[puhrints]

idk what these videos are doing to me but i’m not complaining about finding this channel

[mehtabsidhu]

I'm usually not angry at other people. Most of the times I just don't care. I feel anger because I don't live upto my expectations. I ask myself "why are you so bad at this. You have spent so hours on the same thing and still you repeating same mistakes"( I'm a gamer and a science student). When I'm filled with rage I usually avoid people because I know I will shout at them or say something I don't mean. If I drop expectations for myself then how I'm going to get better at what I do?
Please share your thoughts on this

[deshaunjackson]

This video makes me feel a lot of anger.

[victortexpa]

Expectation it’s the key word for me I expect people to respect me and when I feel disrespected I get angry and anger turns into hate and hate turns into isolation and bitterness that is so true I can not live with expectations that’s dangerous thank for this video it really helped me out