Cultivating the Heart: Getting Rid of Anger

I've seen a video lecture on how to cultivate the mind and control anger from a teacher who promotes traditional Chinese culture. The traditional culture advocates anger control, mainly to bear the main, that is, the way of repression, in the repression to ease, to accept, to change. At that time, I specially recorded it briefly. Rereading it again, I have new feelings. This process of change through the repression of anger relief is actually quite a test of human will, from the human point of view, in fact, is anti-nature.

Traditional culture promotes the punishment of evil and good, from the social level, to punish evil and good is the need for social development, is the need for political, is the need for the overall development of mankind. And anger is the source of evil, so anger is bad and needs to be suppressed. But from a personal point of view, the way to suppress emotions is more painful. De-rage is channeling is releasing, it is completing the full feeling experience of the individual. Emotions are not good or bad, joy, anger, sadness, sorrow, each emotion is a rich experience of life. If you don't let all the emotions be released in a certain event, they will be stuck in your body, and the memory of the event will be stored in your subconscious mind, so that once the event occurs, the subconscious mind will activate itself and form a reaction pattern. Channeling and releasing is allowing the person to complete the full experience of the emotion at the time and letting it flow away naturally. That's why I rather agree that mindfulness is about removing anger, not producing it.

I personally believe that Western psychology is human-centered and respects the laws of human growth and development. I don't want to compare traditional Chinese culture with Western psychology, and I don't think there is a comparison, I just want to combine the two and use them.