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AngerandSadness:Burn Them Ou

I can feel myself moving from anger into sadness. I don't know whether I should try and get the anger out or just let it explode inside.

female. Anger is male, sadness is female. So if you arein tune with sadness, it is difficult to shift to anger, but Iwould like you to shift. Just exploding within will nothelp much because again you are seeking some way of being passive. No. Bring it out, act it out. Even if it lookslike nonsense. Be a buffoon in your own eyes, but bringit out.

If you can float between anger and sadness, both will become similarly easy. You will have a transcendenceand then you will be able to watch. You can stand behind the screen and watch these games, and then youcan go beyond both. But first you have to be moving

nger and sadness are both the same. Sadness ispassive anger and anger is active sadness.Sadness comes easily, anger seems to be

difficult because you are too much in tune with thepassive.

It is difficult for a sad person to be angry. If you canmake a sad person angry, his sadness will disappearimmediately. It will be very difficult for an angry personto be sad. If you can make him sad, his anger willdisappear immediately.

In all our emotions the basic polarity continues thatof man and woman, yin and yang, the male and the

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easily between these two. Otherwise you tend to besad and when one is heavy, transcendence is difficult.

Remember, when two opposite energies, are exactlyalike, then it is very easy to get out of them, becausethey are fighting and cancelling each other and you arenot in anybody's grip. Your sadness and anger are fifty-fifty, equal energies, so they cancel each other. Suddenlyyou have freedom and you can slip out. But if sadness isseventy per cent and anger thirty per cent, then it isvery difficult. Thirty per cent anger in contrast withseventy per cent sadness means forty per cent sadnesswill still be there and it will not be possible; you will bein capable of easily slipping out. That forty per cent willhang over you.

This is one of the basic laws of inner energies.Always let the opposite polarities come to an equalstatus, because then you are able to slip out of them. Itis as if two persons who are fighting are so engagedwith themselves that you need not worry and you canescape. Do not bring the mind in. Just make it anexercise.

You can make it an everyday exercise; forget aboutwaiting for it to come. Every day you have to be angry -- that will be easier. So jump, jog. scream, and bring it.Once you can bring it for no reason at all, you will bevery happy because now you are free.

Otherwise even anger is dominated by situations.You are not a master of it. If you cannot bring it, howcan you drop it?

Gurdjieff used to teach his disciples never to start by

dropping anything. First start by bringing it in, because only a person who can create anger on demandcan be capable of dropping it on demand; simplemathematics. Gurdjieff would tell his disciples to firstlearn how to be angry. Everybody would be sitting andsuddenly he would ay, "Number One, stand up and beangry!"

It looks absurd. But if you can bring it.... And it isalways available, you just have to pull it in. It comeseasily when anybody provides an excuse. Somebodyinsults you and it is there. So why wait to be insulted?Why be dominated by the other? Why can't you bring ityourself? Bring it yourself!

In the beginning it looks somewhat awkward, strange,unbelievable, because you have always believed in thetheory that it is somebody else whose insult has createdthe anger. That is not true. Anger has always been there;somebody has just given an excuse for it to come up. Youcan give yourself an excuse.

Imagine a situation in which you would have beenangry, and become angry. Talk to the wall and say things,and soon the wall will be talking to you. Go completelycrazy. You have to bring anger and sadness to a similarstatus, where they are exactly proportionate to eachother. They will cancel each other out and you can slipaway.

Gurdjieff used to call this "the way of the sly man" --to bring inner energies to such a conflict that they areengaged together cancelling each other, and you have theopportunity to escape. Try it.

likely to cry, get angry, and even hit, i.e.vent feelings. We may not like it, but we see the frustration as an understandable reaction.Osho Meditations especially Dynamic and Gibberish

help one to achieve this catharsis to go beyond this process when during the next stage, the meditatorsbecome silent and move inwards to experience'thoughtless awareness'.This is what uproots anger from the deep psyche andbecomes a permanent solution when one does not reactbut responds with awareness.

When the angry feelings build up inside, like in a pressure cooker, many therapists try to get their'patients' to express the feelings and get themcompletely "off your chest." This is called venting or

catharsis, a cleansing of the system.Early in Freud's career, psychoanalytic therapydepended heavily on catharsis--uncovering oldemotional traumas and venting those feeling until wehad some understanding of the internal stress and athorough draining of the pent up emotions. A popular and common notion is that feelings need tobe expressed openly and completely. For example,when a child wants something he/she can't have, it is

Uprooting Anger beyond Catharsis