Why do we become angered with each other, when it is the Evil inherent within us all that causes sorrows?

Question

People make mistakes and mistakes can be over looked, though some people are motivated in such a way that makes them inflict suffering upon others ... which is the evil inherent. (Much like an illness.) We close our hearts to the person and carry ill feelings about the injustice. Ever notice that? I'm learning to Close my heart to the injustice and to do my best to carry the person in my heart with no remorse. Difficult but possible. What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Nothing is inherently "evil" or "good", that's totally illogical and impossible. You'd have to be EVIL at all moments of every day and nothing else, not one whit of "good". What causes all the suffering we perceive is our clinging and attachments we THINK make us really happy, and the aversions to things we think are the causes of our suffering when usually it's our own deluded minds and perceptions causing the issues. When you learn to perceive things correctly, outside of labeling everything as one extreme or another, understand that all things are impermanent, changing and arise due to causes and conditions, you start to "soften up", you don't suffer as much.

Edit/addition: This anger you perceive is usually the fact that something or someone is challenging your concepts of self, and what you think to be right vs. wrong, your views and perceptions of morality or philosophy, and you react (not "you" personally, btw, anybody can slip their name in place of the pronoun, including myself) out of aversion, or a desire to protect that sense of righteousness or opinion. When you let go of that clinging to "my view is the only correct view" you start to open up, soften up, the buttons you thought people were pushing before start to disappear by default and you don't get as angry.

Hope this helps some... this Buddhist philosophy helped ME overcome a LOT of my anger issues.

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