I have written about honoring all emotions, including anger, before, and spoke about it in my most recent Live Video on Facebook.

There are those who love to justify their inaction or lack of emotion/concern as some sort of greater enlightenment or {spiritual} superiority. When really, they hide behind the illusions created by fear, “comfort”, Ego…
People will say things like, “I am worried that so many are allowing themselves to be angry over current events.”
When the real worrisome part is that those who say such things, are NOT.

In this time where Concious Action and Spiritual Activism is calling to us on such an enormous, intense level,
Getting in touch with our anger is vital.

Though “anger” can be destructive when not dealt with in a healthy way,
It is inauthentic to the human experience, as well as to your spiritual, intuitive self to repress or dismiss the range of powerful emotions that often come to serve our protection or grow us into our higher purpose.

As the South African Buddhist teacher Thanissara writes:
“If we aim to engage destructive social structures, AS WE MUST, our efforts will bring us into direct relationship with anger and outrage.

At its worst, anger burns us up, injures others, or, when we repress it, collapses us into depression.
In the spiritual realm, it can also become passive aggression, which either internalizes as the hyper-energized inner critic or projects out onto those who are “not following the rules.”
(not behaving as one’s idea of “enlightened” or as “spiritual”)

If we are to undertake the blessed and grueling journey of the luminous, fierce, yet tender heart needed for our times, then anger is an asset. (!)

Looking on at the mindless destruction of the planet, for example, how can we not feel outraged?
While anger is an uncomfortable and difficult emotion, it serves a vital purpose.
It shocks us out of {the trivial and of} being lost in distracted twaddle while a terrible destruction unfolds around us.

It is healthy to feel angry and enraged…
{about the state of the planet and human rights violations.}
It is important to feel upset, remorse, and anger at what humans have done {to each other and the planet}
It means we have a conscience.
In Buddhist understanding, the force of conscience is the guardian of the world.

It is important to let ourselves feel outrage rather than sanitize this raw emotion with spiritual speak or shame it as ignoble.

Yet if we harbor or act out of anger, it almost always poisons us, diminishing our credibility and harming others.”

The late Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah recommended we:
“catch emotions in the net of mindfulness, and then examine them before reacting.”

Anger is a warning that something is invading and overwhelming us. If we don’t take heed, disorder and destruction will follow.

Holding onto anger, however, is not sustainable. There is a fine line between feeling anger and being blinded by its energy. Anger can sometimes arise when we activate early patterning. This kind of upset needs careful tending.

Anger as a healthy response to injustice has a different quality.
It is clarifying.
In Buddhist teachings, particularly in Vajrayana Buddhism, so-called negative emotions mask pure essential energy.
Once the coarser emotion is transmuted, the finer energy is distilled.

Anger is traditionally thought to be close to wisdom.
When not projected outward onto others or inward toward the self, it gives us the necessary energy and clarity to understand what needs to be done.

If we prematurely condemn or repress anger because we think it unworthy to feel,
then we will fail to transform it.
The fullness of its embodied energy will remain unavailable to us.
We won’t be able to protect what needs to be protected;
we will let what is most precious slip away.

~ Jill ?
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