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WATCHING ANGER
Sun
26 September 2005

There is a Zen anecdote: A student came to Bankei and said: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper -- how can I cure it?"

"Show me this temper," said Bankei, "it sounds fascinating."

"I haven't got it right now," said the student, "so I can't show it to you."

"Well then" said Bankei, "bring it to me when you have it."
"But I can't bring it just when I happen to have it," protested the student. "It arises unexpectedly, and I would surely lose it before I got it to you."

"In that case," said Bankei, "it cannot be part of your true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time. When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not give it to you -- so it must come into you from the outside. I suggest that whenever it gets into you, you beat yourself with a stick until the temper can't stand it, and runs away."

Osho explains: You can control your anger, but what will you do? -- you will suppress it. And what happens when you suppress a certain thing? The direction of its movement changes: it was going out, and if you suppress it, it starts going in -- just its direction changes. And for anger to go out was good, because the poison needs to be thrown out. It is bad for the anger to move within, because that means your whole body mind structure will be poisoned by it.

Osho suggests: Next time you feel angry go and run around the house seven times, and after it sit under a tree and watch where the anger has gone. You have not repressed it, you have not controlled it, you have not thrown it on somebody else -- because if you throw it on somebody else a chain is created. He will throw more anger on you, he is repressed as much as you are. Then there comes a chain: you throw on him, he throws on you, and you both become enemies.

Don't throw it on anybody. It is the same as when you feel like vomiting: you don't go and vomit on somebody. Anger needs a vomit. You go to the bathroom and vomit! It cleanses the whole body -- if you suppress the vomit it will be dangerous, and when you have vomited you will feel fresh, you will feel unburdened, unloaded, good, healthy.

Contributed by Swami Chaitanya Keerti, editor: Osho World magazine.

INNER VOICE: LEARN TO RISE IN LOVE
Hindustan Times
September 16,2005
Swami Chaitanya Keerti

Once a man came to Osho and told him about his wife and their life of continuous conflict and quarrels. On hearing this Osho remarked, “it seems you cannot understand each other”.

The man said, “what to say about understanding her, I cannot even stand her!”

This is not a stray case of a few unhappily married individuals; this is harsh fact of life. Many couples in the world have such a feeling, that they cannot stand each other, even though theirs had been a love marriage. They are in a constant strife and in opposition.

Osho tells us the basic reason for all this struggle. He says, “The way a man looks at life is different from how a woman looks at it. For example, a man is interested in faraway things, in the future of humanity, in the faraway stars, whether there are human beings on other planets or not. A woman simply giggles at the whole nonsense. She is only interested in a very small, closed circle -- in the neighbors, in the family, in who is cheating his wife, whose wife has fallen in love with the chauffeur. Her interest is very local and very human. She is not worried about reincarnation; neither is she concerned about life after death. Her concern is more pragmatic. She is concerned with the present, here and now.

Man is never here and now. He is always somewhere else.”

Osho adds, “if both partners are conscious of the fact that it is a meeting of opposites, that there is no need to make it a conflict, then it is a great opportunity to understand the totally opposite point of view and absorb it. Then the life of a man and woman together can become a beautiful harmony. Otherwise, it is continuous fight and struggle for superiority. It is one of the strangest phenomena that for thousands of years men and women have been living together, yet they are strangers. They go on giving birth to children, but still they remain strangers. The feminine approach and the masculine approach are so opposed to each other that unless a conscious effort is made, unless it becomes your meditation, there is no hope of having a peaceful life.”