Introduction
There are
three poisons in Buddha’s teaching and Dosa or Anger is one of the dangerous
poisons out of three which leads to evil and suffering. Dosa also let everyone
to be trapped in the wheel of life again and again. As everybody understands
the behavior of anger, and what anger looks like. At first we have to observe
our own experience of anger ourselves then we can understand more clearly what anger
is looks like. When we are angry, our minds, thoughts, and behaviors immediately
changed into violent mind or impure mind then leads to violent action.
What
is Anger?
The Buddhist word
Dosa, usually translated as anger, might more accurately be translated as
“hostility” provided we recognize that hostility can be present in emotions
ranging from minor aversion to full-blown rage.[1]
Anger destroys the one who is angry and it
burns both physicality and mentality. It naturally leads to violent action if
he or she is not control the anger.
Anger appears in our mind almost every day
when we feel unpleasant things, and the anger keeps in all of us because we are
being ordinary people. We sometime get angry with different reason and when
anger is appear in our mind, we are like crazy, we forget everything without
control our mind. This is why anger is a very common character that we express
very easily when we get angry. So in
briefly the anger indicates many emotions that we could see from others and
even by ourselves. The negative thinking, sorrow, grief, fear, depression,
anger, grudge, frightening others with abusive usages, attacking, planning to
kill other people all of these are dosa. We irrigate easily as being ordinary people
with different reasons if we are not control our mind.
Anger
in Abhidhamma
There
are only two types of cittas rooted in Dosa.
1
Domanassa sahagatam patigha sampayuttam asankharikam ekam
2
Domanassa sahagatam patigha sampayuttam
sasankharikam ekam
Whenever
we feel angry or displeased or sad or depressed Dosa mula citta will arise. And
whenever it arises, it is accompanied by ill will and mentally painful feeling.
If it arises slowly after much prompting from oneself or others, it is
Sasankharika[2]
The
three poisons in Buddhism are obstacle to attain Nirvana. The three poisons are
Lobha, Dosa and Moha, or greed, anger and delusion. The person, who practices
to attain the higher state of mind, must be eliminating defilement of Lobha,
Dosa, and Moha. This is the nature of
our mind that if we see, meets unpleasant things, the dosa mula citta will
probably arise that makes us angry and its harm ourselves; get painful feeling,
finally its affect physically and mentally. Mind and matter are connected each
other, if we feel unpleasant and awful, our physical body and mentality change
constantly.
When
one comes across material losses, death of loved ones, downfalls or failures,
there will arises intense anger. It means extreme wrath. Ordinary anger leads
to violence or even killing, while it gives you superlative anxiety and ire.
The flame of anxiety and fury in the heart boil the blood circulating in the
body. Therefore, a person with intense anger will get lapses or fits, or even
lose consciousness[3]
This above
paragraph gives us a good explanation and it let us to know the characteristic
of Dosa. We can aware of the characteristic of anger and what is the anger
looks like? Anger appears in one’s mind rapidly anytime if the unsatisfactory
things occur. If our anger is arsing by some unpleasant case, then our intense
anger attack our physical body and mind. So we are severe affected by our
intense anger. And after that we are just like blind person, or unconsciousness
person, we could not distinguish what is wrong and what is right. Finally our
intense anger let us to do completely wrong action and wrong things. The anger
can be destructive our health that has a strong, powerful emotion. If we could
not control our anger it may cause increasing anxiety, and also headache.
His Holiness Dalai Lama wrote in his book about the
real enemy of human beings which is called Anger.
1. Anger is the real destroyer of our good
human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but
anger can. Anger is our real enemy.
2. If we live our lives continually motivated
by anger and hatred, even our physical health deteriorates.[4]
It
is notable and valuable point that His Holiness Dalai Lama
expressed in his book and it inspire people to know what the character of anger
is and also what bad consequence approach to all of us after blasting of Anger.
It is true that chemical weapon cannot destroy our human abilities, qualities
but the anger can destruct the quality of human life and everything concerning physical
and mental. This is why we have to consider and recognize the anger as the real
enemy of our life.
The
Buddha said, ‘he abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me. In him
who harbours such thoughts hatred will not cease’.[5]
It is the
fact that hatred cannot be solved by hatred but loving-kindness and anger
cannot be overcome by anger but compassion. In the same way we should need to
develop our compassion and loving-kindness in order to solve such problems. We
must train ourselves to analysis the moody mind when anger thought is appear in
our mind.
Anger is sometime very weird emotion that we
noticed. Some people get angry and it is not easily disappear or control that
tough anger like carved on the rock but some people get angry is just few
minutes then the angry thought passed away like writing in sand. The thing is that when we are angry, we
should aware of our own anger, examine our anger ourselves carefully, and then
our anger gradually reduce into normal situation.
Conclusion
People
understand well the characteristic of anger or Dosa, we have to find the way to
eradicate our anger then eliminate these loatheness anger from our mind. In my
view, we can take over and eliminate the three poisons Lobha, Dosa, and Moha by
taking regular meditation. Meditation is the best way to eradicate all poisons and develop loving-kindness. An angry person has
full of delusion, he cannot even thinks of right or wrong. Some degree of anger
will be with us for all of our lives and it is actually negative feeling stages
that typically associate with hostile thinking. There are many causes that can
make us angry. Many causes of angry come from different conditions as
frustration, failure of business, competition, and so on. So everyone should
know the way to reduce of high degree of angry with right way or positive way.
I would like to point out that the good way of reduction of angry is taking
meditation regularly every day with deep concentration. It is a way out of our
characteristic of anger.
[2] Mein Tin Mon, Dr, The Essence of Buddha
Abhidhamma, Mya Mon Yadana Publication, Yangon, 1995, P 26-27
[3] Janakabhivamsa,
Ashin, Abhidhamma in Daily Life, Religious Affairs Department, Yangon
Myanmar, 1977, P 32
[4] Dalai Lama,
Healing Anger: The Power Of Practice From A Buddhist Perspective, Snow
Lion, 1997, P. 33
[5] Dhammananda, K
Sri, How To Live Without Fear And Worry, Buddhist Missionary Society,
Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia, 1989, P. 67
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