( a few paragraphs ) describe what is making you really mad
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Anger or wrath is the emotion of heated displeasure. It is both the smouldering flame of resentment and the volcanic eruption of fury. To be angry is to not be at peace. It is to be held in the grip of aversion towards some person, event, pattern of living, opinion or thing. This essay is about the nefarious influence of anger, its unskilfulness, and how to let go of it.
Who is wrathful? He is a wrathful man who is repelled by many things. His views are predominately negative, critical, and most of all impetuous. His speech is given to sarcasm, complaining, harshness, swearing, dogmatic views, and
dismissiveness. The proper term for one who is very often angry is “irascible”.
Anger can lead to broken trust, trauma, criminality, imprisonment, and wars.
Nevertheless it is commonplace nowadays to hear anger being justified as a healthy emotion that needs to be “vented”. The popular growth of psychology and psychotherapy in the 1970s and 1980s has led to wide adoption of the idea that repression of any negative emotions is bad for mental health, and even physical health. There is a tendency to see anger as a source of strength, often justified in its expression, a reasonable response to undesireable behaviours or conditions. From street protesters and rock stars, to CEOs, teachers, and police this view is held in common.
But what if this commonly held view is wrong? What if even small instances of anger are signs of egoism, of a hardened heart, of a certain degree of spiritual blindness that is leading us into stressed relationships, fractious workplaces, and less than satisfying family life?
Seeing anger in such a negative light is certainly the historic view of the world’s great religions. The Roman Catholic Church for example made up a list of Seven Deadly Sins in the Middle Ages at the height of Christendom, and put anger or wrath as it is sometimes termed firmly on the list. The Buddha condemned anger, making it a part of his five Hindrances to enlightenment. Islam too is wary of anger. The Prophet Mohammad told his followers that the best of them were those slowest to anger, and the worst those who stayed angry the longest.
Condemnation of anger even occurs in some pagan philosophies like Stoicism. Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher during the reign of Nero said, “Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
The Christian View
According to Bishop Athanasius of Cyprus we can pretty much take it for granted our expressions of anger are based on egoism and are therefore sinful (Pride is a great sin). Scripture is also wary of anger. Again and again the Bible counsels us to be slow to anger (ie. Proverbs). James in his epistle said: “A man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.”
Without a doubt anger goes against the whole tenor of Christ’s teachings in the Gospels with His emphasis on the need to forgive, to love enemies, to be merciful: “Blessed are the peace-makers,” he said during the Sermon on the Mount, “for they shall be acknowledged as sons of God.” Christ didn’t just condemn murder as the Old Testament had, but went on to condemn abuse and contempt: “I say to you that everyone who gets angry with his brother shall be answerable to the Magistrate…that whoever says “You fool!” shall be liable to the Gehenna of Fire.” (Matt. 5:22)
One of Eastern Orthodox’s greatest saints, St John of Kronstadt, Russia, went so far as to say, “He who is impatient and irritable does not know himself and the human race, and is unworthy of the name of Christian.” He also said, “We ought not to allow ourselves to be vexed or irritated by anything, because if we do become vexed or irritated frequently we form a habit which is very harmful to us, both morally and physically, whilst if we bear opposition with equanimity we form a good and beneficial habit – that of enduring everything calmly and patiently
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