The Destruction of Anger and the Way to Control It By Nagasen Introduction There is anger in every human being.

It is a common emotion felt by everyone. It is an emotion that has been categorized, along with other emotions and acts. Anger brings destruction to ones and others whoever, cannot control it. If we try to analyze we can say that anger can be one of the most destructive of all emotions leading to hard feelings and a sense of self control that cause or damaged and broken relationships and even physical violence. Anger is a natural part of human emotional framework but each have to learn to use it constructive and above all to control it. Anger arises to a person when he cannot bear up the unpleased words are being spoken to him by someone. When, one meets unaccepted conditions. Today, all most many human beings face problems, such as fighting or quarreling or uses of abuse words with

couples, friends, children, and neighbors sometime committing suicide and breaking of the things are seen as the result of the anger, when it is not being controlled. According to Buddhist teaching anger is termed in Pali as Dosa. It is one of the unwholesomeness. Furthermore, it is functioned either in three ways. They are: (i) (ii) (iii) Psychically Verbally Mentally

Therefore, Anger is not always good and that is the negative aspect of gutlessness of people. This easy is based on the destruction on being angry and the way to control it. It is a clear fact that many people have enemies, some lost their jobs, and some even fight with his wife or children just one is dominated by anger.
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In this paper I would mainly focused on Kodha sutta of AN Nikaya. I would like to bring out the theme the Buddha discussed. Moreover, it seems this Sutta is very helpful to let others know what anger can do to oneself and others. So, when this sutta put into practice in proper away he will be aware of great sin he might commit by being angry. They are killing parents, killing saints, killing nurses. And I will be citing some of the instance where the Buddha talked about anger and the way to control it. Definition of the term anger Anger in Buddhism is defined here as: being unable to bear the object, or the intention to cause harm to the object. Anger is seen as aversion with a stronger exaggeration, and is listed as one of the five hindrances. The Dalai Lama says: The Gautama Buddha has taught that there are three basic kleshas at the root of samsara (bondage, illusion) and the vicious cycle of rebirth. These are greed, hatred, and delusion- also translatable as attachment, anger, and ignorance. They bring us confusion and misery rather than peace, happiness, and fulfillment. It is in our own self-interest to purify and transform them.
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Satisfaction of Seven Things to an Enemy Now, let us see what the seven things which satisfy an enemy. In Kodha sutta of AN, the Buddha has clearly explained that one who is dominated by anger will face seven things that an enemy wishes or not for his angry enemy. The Buddha also clearly explained why enemy would wish these

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seven things. Because no enemy relishes an enemy have positivity of these seven things. They are as follows: 1. Angry person wishes for his/her enemy to be ugly Let him be ugly It is a clear fact that an angry persons mind always work for bad wishes. This persons mind works in negative way because his mind is poisoned by anger. In fact, this is psychological problem. The Buddha has explained that No enemy relishes an enemys beauty. So when this person is angry, a prey to anger, ruled by anger, nevertheless whether he take good shower, or cut his beard still he will be ugly. 2. Secondly, an enemy wishes thus for his enemy: 'Let him lie in pain.' The Buddha said that Now when this person is angry, a prey to anger, ruled by anger, for all he may lie on a couch spread with rugs, blankets and counterpanes with a deerskin cover, a canopy and red cushions for the head and feet, yet he lies only in pain through his being a prey to anger. This is the second thing gratifying to an enemy that befalls one who is angry, whether a woman or a man. 3. Let him have no prosperity. Whether the enemy wish for his enemy not to have prosperity that angry person will not prosper. The Buddha said that Now when this person is angry, prey to anger, ruled by anger, he mistakes bad for good and he mistakes good for bad, and each being taken wrongly in the other's sense, these things for long conduce to his harm and suffering, through his being a prey to anger. This is the third thing gratifying and helpful to an enemy that befalls one who is angry, whether a woman or a man. 4. Also an enemy wishes thus for his enemy: 'Let him not be rich.' The Buddha said that however much that angry person put an effort to earn the wealth still he will be fine by the kings treasure.

5. Also an enemy wishes thus for his enemy: 'Let him not be famous.' Any person who ever earn fame by his diligence he loses through his being a prey to anger. The story of a lady householder Vedhika, and Khali best suit to this point. Vedehika was known as gentle, eventempered and clam lady. Khali who was a slave lady used to work hard. So one day she wanted to see whether anger is present in her lady without showing or is it absent? Or is it just because I m diligent, deft, so one day she got up late. Then, Vedehika scolded her because she got up late. Then final day she even got up late. Then, vedhika being angry and grabbed hold of a rolling pin and gave her strike over the head, cutting it open. Then, Khali with her injury head she went around and criticizes her mistress to the neighbors. From that incident lady Vedhika was known as wicked. 6. Also an enemy wishes thus for his enemy: 'Let him have no friends.' So when a person is angry, prey to anger, and ruled by anger, the friends he may have, his companions, relatives and kin, will keep away from him through his being a prey to anger. 7. Also an enemy wishes thus for his enemy: 'Let him on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear in a state of deprivation, in a bad destination, in perdition, even in hell.' The Buddha said that when that angry person misconducts himself in body, speech and mind, and by his misconduct in body, speech and ,mind , on the dissolution of the body, after death he reappears in the state of deprivation, in a bad destination, in perdition even in hell, through his through his being a prey to anger. This is the seventh thing gratifying and helpful to an enemy that befalls one who is angry, whether a woman or a man. Most Destruction Caused by Anger
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The greatest destruction caused by anger to the one who process it. At times, when an individual is angry he will reacts and act foolishly. He might think that whatever he does is right. He thinks always he is right. The Buddha said that an angry person doesnt see the Dhamma because his mind is clouded by anger. Therefore, he causes harm to himself and towards others. This fury does so cloud the mind of man that he cannot discern this fearful inner danger. An angry man no meaning knows, No angry man sees the Dhamma, So wrapped in darkness, as if blind, Is he whom anger dogs.3 Moreover, The Buddha said that one might get hurts after having hurting others. That angry person will feel as: Someone a man in anger hurts; but, when his anger is later spent with difficulty or with ease, He suffers as if seared by fire. His look betrays the sulkiness of some dim smoky smoldering glow. Whence may flare up an anger-blaze that sets the world of men aflame.4 And the more, he will kill his mother, father, saints and common people too. Anger makes man a parricide, Anger makes him a matricide, Anger can make him slay the saint as he would kill the common man. Nursed and reared by a mother's care, He comes to look

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upon the world, yet the common man in anger kills the being who gave him life.5 The above quotation from the same sutta (kodha sutta of AN) indicate how an anger force an angry person who cannot control it to act such great sin i.e. killing parents. Furthermore, that angry person forgets that he needs to treat his parents very well for they have given him everything. Whereas, the Buddha clearly explains in the Katannu sutta of AN one should be grateful to parents. I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, and were to look after them by anointing, massaging, bathing, & rubbing their limbs, and they were to defecate & urinate right there [on your shoulders], you would not in that way pay or repay your parents.6 Another fact is that although the being can understand that his life his more valuable than others to himself. But he forgets being angry and takes poison and die. Nowadays, there are people who are angry with their lives and kill themselves and disturb the innocent beings. And suicide bomber is available every nook and corner of the people killing dozens of innocent people. In BBC page is highlighted everyday there are some kinds of killing going on. So we can conclude that because of anger and hatred people misuse their precious lives.

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No being but seeks his own self's good, none dearer to him than himself, yet men in anger kill themselves, Distraught for reasons manifold: For crazed they stab themselves with daggers, in desperation swallow poison; Perish hanged by ropes, or fling themselves over a precipice.7 The way to overcome anger So far we have been discussing about the anger and the destruction it can cause to an individual and to others. This bad emotional feeling should be overcome by every one of us. There are a set of technique taught by Lord Buddha in a number of sutta to overcome anger. The Lord Buddha also mentioned in the Kodha sutta how should one get rid of anger. This secret place, with anger's aid, is where mortality sets the snare. To blot it out with discipline, With vision, strength, and understanding, To blot each fault out one by one, The wise man should apply himself, Training likewise in the true Dhamma; "Let smoldering be far from us."Then rid of wrath and free from anger, and rid of lust and free from envy, Tamed, and with anger left behind, Anger can be suppressed through meditation. When one does vippassana meditation he can see when anger arise and disappear. So through mindfulness development one can control anger. And at the beginning a mediator should practice samatha meditation then he can slowly go to vipassana meditation. So when he practices meditation
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simultaneously his patience and mindfulness become stronger. Here are the some benefits of inside meditation mentioned by Archan vinai ussovakul. They are: i. The elimination of unwholesomeness of mind, such as wrong views (ditthi) and unwholesome wanting, which aggravate Dosa. ii. The ability to cope with Dosa with wisdom, subtlety and calmness, without intensifying its adverse effect. iii. The development of wisdom for full and direct realization of Dosa at the present moment, resulting in the relief of suffering in future. iv. The ability to enrich the mind with wisdom, subtle happiness, blissfulness and tranquility, which will automatically and naturally, prevented anger from arising. Now, it is clear fact that meditation also helps to see the anger and its characteristic. In Aghatavinaya sutta of AN, the lord Buddha has shown five ways to get rid of anger. They are: i. Loving-kindness can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed: this is how annoyance with him can be removed.

ii. Compassion can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. iii. On looking equanimity can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. iv. The forgetting and ignoring of a person with whom you are annoyed can be practiced; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. v. Ownership of deeds in a person with whom you are annoyed can be concentrated upon thus: 'This good person is owner of his deeds, heir to his deeds, his deeds are the womb from which he is born, his deeds are his kin for whom he is responsible, his deeds are his refuge, he is heir to his deeds, be they good or bad.' This too is how annoyance with him can be removed. Conclusion From the above discussion, we can draw the conclusion that anger can lead to destruction when one is being attached to it. The Buddha brought out the theme of the Kodha sutta in such away by giving example. Furthermore, The Buddha said that we may blame others for our downfall if we are not mindfulness with regards to our body, mind and speech. Therefore, one should be mindful so that he can see when anger arises. The way, the Buddha has showed the method to reduce our anger if we practice in that way we would be able to live happily. Reflecting and looking one s own self by meditating is an effective
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constructive reaction and through these we will become happy in every way to our works and together with our journey. The way we deal with our friends as well as our family members become more intact and we will be able to learn many things with patience and tolerance. Following the Buddhism practices of meditation and reflection in order to manage anger and lead to a life that is peaceful, happy and stress free.

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Reference Ussivakul archan vinai, An Introduction TO Buddhist Meditation FOR Results, Tippayawisuit Ltd., Partnership. 2003 Rahula Walpula, What the Buddha Taught, The Goldrdon Fraser Gallery Ltd., London, 1956 Walshe, Marurice, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Wisdom Publication, Boston, 1995 Ph.D. Gnanarama pategama ven., Essentials of Buddhism Singapore, author, 2000 http://www.repulsiveness.com/anger/encyclopedia.htm http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an07/an07.060.nymo.html

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