72 Insights for transforming anger in the mind


1. THE MIND MUST BE UNMOVABLE.

If you follow this desire, follow this anger, it will harm you, your loved ones, and all beings. You must endure and overcome to save yourself, save your loved ones, and help all beings...!!!


2. THE MIND MUST BE UNMOVABLE.

You will never be foolish enough to cling to greed, anger, ignorance... with others to repay the Buddha, and not suffer in the cycle of birth and death...!!!


3. THE MIND MUST BE UNMOVABLE.

You should not expect anyone to care, love, and act according to your wishes.

Because to still have expectations is to still suffer, it is hell, it does not resonate with the land of the Buddha...!!!

4. Only through forgiveness can you find complete happiness...!!!

5. Not only forgiveness but sincerely, you need to thank others, be grateful to them, for they have helped you grow, helped you attain enlightenment...!!!

6. Not only forgiveness but sincerely you need to care for others more because they are sowing unwholesome seeds - they will reap bitter fruits...!!!


7. Forgiveness also means you are saving others... (helping you and everyone be closer, avoiding suffering later)...!!!


8. Just consider that you are repaying your debt to others, the debt of life...

(In the past life, you offended them, now they offend you back, you must happily accept and forgive so the debt will soon be resolved and vice versa)...!!!

9. Everything has its price - so why worry any longer...!!!


10. The character of a person determines the fruits they will bear...!!!

11. If you truly have a heart like a jewel, then when it is polished - it will shine even brighter...!!!


12. Anger is meaningless, it only harms you more...!!!


13. When others are angry with you, it also means their heart is in so much pain, unable to endure, that’s why they express like that. Thinking like this, you should care for them more, how could you be angry at them...!!!


14. As a practitioner, if your mind is still filled with anger, when will you attain liberation...!!!


15. If friends are not well, like the autumn wind, it will make your heart cooler...!!!


16. If friends are not virtuous -  helping me gain more virtues, increasing my compassion and forgiveness...!!!

17. Additionally, each time you get angry, scientists have warned that it can shorten your lifespan. In contrast, those who live happily and selflessly tend to have a longer life expectancy.


18. Difficulties are like a double-edged sword: they can help you become a saint or turn you into a petty person..!!!


19. And the unwholesome person will help the qualities of compassion, loving-kindness, joy, and equanimity within you to grow, and your virtue will become complete..!!!


20. If your mind is as vast as the sky and as gentle as the earth, how can you feel sorrow..?!!!


21. When karma comes - receive it with calmness and joy.

When karma returns - the heart feels sorrow; how can the debts of the world be resolved..?!!

22. A gentleman does not blame a petty person..!!!


23. Every moment of anger is like living in hell..!!!


24. Everyone has made mistakes! Even you have!

Therefore, forgive the mistakes of others, so that when you find yourself in a similar situation, you too will receive forgiveness..!!!


25. Everyone has experienced anger at least once! Even you have!

Therefore, forgive those who are angry, so that when you find yourself in a similar situation, you will receive love and forgiveness..!!!

26. Anger is a pain that lasts a lifetime! Giving is what lasts forever..!!!


27. Enough..!!

I have decided to live according to the Buddha, let anger go away..!!!

28. In the Dhammapada, the Buddha teaches:

"Like the earth, without anger

Like a solid rock

Like a pond without mud

That person does not cycle through birth and death."


29. Therefore, simply overcoming anger is to escape the cycle of birth and death..!!!


30. Defeating countless enemy troops is not as great as conquering oneself; conquering oneself is the most glorious victory..!!!