Monday 24 October 2022

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Kensington Market, Toronto

Anger/Danger

A few days ago, in Ottawa during a walk at the confluence of Rideau Canal and the Ottawa River by a cliff, a sign is posted warning pedestrians not to get too close. It reads, or is supposed to read “Danger,” with an image of a man falling off the cliffs edge. Someone had come along, when security wasn’t looking, and blocked out the “D” from the word leaving it to read “Anger.” I guess the person’s intent was to project a moment of truth. After all, the two words can be considered synonymous as an angry person is often dangerous. And to touch reality on this matter the Bhagavad-Gita does indeed list three items that lead to a fall. They are lust, anger and greed (kama, krodha, and lobha). In fact, these items take you straight to the trail of hell.

Hell doesn’t necessarily refer to a place of burning flames, that is usually the reference that people imply, but it definitely means a place of suffering. The comedian Red Skelton once said, “If someone’s in hell you can’t tell them where to go.” The toxic nature that a person carries, such as anger, is indeed a state of hell; a state of self torture.

So, as I was walking back from a hospital visit at Toronto General West this very night I was pondering on the amazing force of anger, how it can consume us and envelop us into a sealed in darkness that is hard to get loose from unless you try and cry out for help.

May the Source be with you!

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