Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective by The Dalai Lama

Author:The Dalai Lama [Lama, The Dalai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-01-28T01:35:00+00:00

Day Three

FIRST SESSION

Next, Shantideva explains how we should deal with anger and hatred that might arise in us in relation to someone who is destroying something that belongs to us. Up to this point, he has dealt with harm and injury inflicted on oneself; from this point onward, he discusses how to deal with harm inflicted on something that is "mine."

In verse 64, Shantideva talks about how a Buddhist might try to justify being angry and hateful toward someone who is destroying images of the Buddha or performing sacrilegious deeds such as destroying reliquaries or sacred images, and so forth. For a Buddhist, these are very dear to the heart, very precious. One might try to justify developing hatred toward someone who desecrates these objects by saying that it is for the sake of the Dharma. Shantideva says that this is not the appropriate response, because in reality what is happening is that one is responding because one cannot bear it. But so far as the sacred objects themselves are concerned, they cannot be harmed.

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