Buddha - Drop Your Pride, Overcome Anger

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In this video, I talk about the Buddha, Buddhism, flourishing, justice, anger, and how to overcome it.

In The Dhammapada, Buddha says that a wise man is beyond anger and that anger leads to sorrow, and I explored this idea more deeply through a dialogue. I was interested in the complete elimination of anger from the mind, and here’s where I’ve arrived.

The root of anger is pride. Pride is the belief that the world “should” be a certain way. Pride is believing that people “should” conform to my expectations of them. So when I’m prideful, I constantly think, you shouldn’t do that. And this thought leads to anger, anger leads to alienation, and alienation leads to sorrow. But when you drop pride, you drop your expectations of the world, and when you drop your expectations of the world, you see the world as it is, and when you see the world as it is, your understanding of it improves, and it’s only through understanding that we can move towards true justice—the mutual flourishing of all things.

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The Dhammapada by Buddha: https://geni.us/xQQG

NOTES
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(1) Videos are just my opinion, for entertainment and informational purposes. Just some things to think about—not advice.

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