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Hsihu Center, Formosa Dec.25, 1995.Alwayskeep a peace mind.
Whenever someone angers you or you feel angertowards someone, don't put all this anger on that person. Justremember the Holy Names and try to center yourself as much asyou can. If you forget, okay, when you remember, try to be centeredagain and forget that person.
As soon as you become centered within yourself,love will flow. Then you will forget. You will think it is a smallmatter and it's easy to love thy neighbor or love thy enemy. Otherwise,if we keep rushing toward that person with all our anger, thenwe forget our real Self. We project all our energy to that personand then we, the practitioner, having a very good energy, justgive it all to them even though with hatred. You've lost everything.You have emptied your pockets. You have thrown it at him justlike when I throw candies to you. Do I still have any candiesleft in my pocket? No.
You have seen my mini-car with the big basketand you have seen me with a lot of big boxes sometimes, but allI do is throw it at everyone that comes near so that in the endI have nothing left. Whether I throw it with anger or with love,I still throw it at them. Of course when I throw, I throw withlove. But similarly, if we throw anger at someone, that is stillour capital as well. All our attention, all our energy is thrownat that person and the whole day's meditation or maybe the wholemonth's is spent; empty pockets. Then you have to start from A,B, C again. "Oh Master, please, I can not see anything, allblack." Or maybe you can not hear anything, you become spirituallydeaf and blind.
So actually, we cannot afford to be angry.Anytime, try to control, anytime, try to get back our center.Then spend it as you like. Don't be forced to spend by the powerof anger, the power of grief or anything like that.
We can always save ourselves if we are centeredall the time -- self centered, not selfish self-centered, stayalways stable in the face of typhoons, hurricanes, etc.
It is very difficult to get along with ourfamily members, neighbors and friends sometimes; but it is evenmore difficult if we don't try to get along. We will lose someof our power, our loving kindness and our enlightenment anytimewe hate our neighbors.
Anytime we think negatively about someone welose some of our Self, we lose some of the light, we lose someof the heavenly happiness that normally belongs to us. So if wecan see clearly all this, we actually cannot afford to hate anyone.
