#WalkForPeace

the real issue is how we react to our own angry feelings here and now, if and when they arise, and what is most helpful for ourselves and others in this present reality.

I realize this may seen pedantic, but not sure how useful it is to second-guess another person’s responses to angry feelings decades later and speculate about what night have been. Seems to me,

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“Just as in the last stage of the night the morning star shines, blazes, & dazzles, even so, all the grounds for making merit leading to spontaneously arising [in heaven] do not equal one-sixteenth of the awareness-release through good will. Good will–surpassing them–shines, blazes, & dazzles.”

we can’t completely negate them all. We must discern between theory and practice.” (pp.55-57.) I can see how some audiences might not find these passages to be helpful. Also, the experience of angry feelings is highly personal, and justifying them may potentially be harmful to self and others.

That part of the book also contains some discussion which seems to paint non-Mahayana Buddhists as self-centered (using the pejorative Hinayana), then also drawing a distinction between theory and practice, e.g., “Anger is bad in theory, and we must get rid of attachment, but in practice,

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