[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Let Anger Be in Its Own Place

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 22, 2008

LET ANGER BE IN ITS OWN PLACE

Student: If I'm angry, instead of either expressing or suppressing my 
anger, how can I just relate to it? Should I stop the anger and just 
relate to the thought process?

Chogyam Trungpa: You don't stop the anger, you just are the anger. 
Anger just hangs out as it is. That is relating with the anger. Then 
the anger becomes vivid and directionless, and it diffuses into 
energy. The idea of relating with the emotion has nothing to do with 
expressing yourself to the other person. The Tibetan expression for 
that is rang sar shak, which means "leave it in its own place." Let 
anger be in its own place.

 From "Death and the Sense of Experience" in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 137 to 138.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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