EVEN TEMPER - ANGER

AN EVEN TEMPER – SOMETIMES IT IS RENDERED AS 'ANGERLESSNESS' WHICH IS NOT VERY HAPPY. A BETTER RENDERING WOULD BE THE CAPACITY TO CHECK AT THE RIGHT TIME THE WAVES OF ANGER AS THEY MOUNT UP IN OUR MIND, SO THAT WE DONOT MANIFEST ANGER IN OUR ACTIONS.

 

IT WILL BE ALMOST UNNATURAL TO EXPECT THE MIND TO BECOME INCAPABLE OF ANGER. BUT NO EMOTION SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO OVERWHELM US TO SUCH A DEGREE AS TO RENDER US ALMOST POWERLESS. THIS ANGER ARISES OUT OF AN INSUFFERRABLE IMPATIENCE WITH OTHERS**

 

IN SHORT, NO-ANGER DOES NOT MEAN  'WITHOUT ANGER' BUT ONLY KEEPING, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, AN EVEN TEMPER.

 

** ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY, BY THEIR THOUGHT, WORD OR DEED COME TO INJURE OUR INTEREST, OR INSULT OUR OWN SELF-EVALUATION.

FW: Sand and Stone - short inspiring story :)

Sand and Stone

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND, AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE