我相信，大家都曾努力压制愤怒，但不知怎的，愤怒根本消就除不了。那么有没有其他方法，可以化解愤怒呢？

愤怒，可能产生于生理或心理的原因。你愤怒，也许因为遭受挫败，自卫反应机制崩溃，或者你精心构建的安全感遭受威胁，等等。大家都熟悉愤怒，那么我们该如何理解并消除愤怒呢？如果你认为你的信仰、理念和见解具有至高无上的意义，那么当遭受质疑时，你必然爆发激烈反应。相反，如果你不执着于自己的信仰和见解，如果你开始质疑：那些信仰与见解果真是理解生活的不可或缺的法宝吗？通过这种方式，明白愤怒的起源，你的愤怒反而能平息。这样，你就能开始化解内心的抗拒——恰是抗拒心引发了冲突与痛苦。这需要你有一颗诚挚之心。我们都已习惯于自我控制，以迎合社会或宗教，或换取某种方便。但，要根除愤怒，需要深刻的觉知力。

你说，当你听到世事不公，就会陷入愤怒。这是因为你心存仁爱与慈悲吗？慈悲与愤怒能够共生吗？当你恐惧、怨恨时，内心还有公义吗？也许，你一想到世事的不公与残酷，你就愤怒不已，但愤怒并不能改变世界的不公与残酷，只能产生伤害。要想为生活带来秩序，你必须有一颗关爱、慈悲之心。如果你的行为出于怨恨，则只能制造更多的怨恨。凡愤怒肆虐处，就绝没有公义，以为公义与愤怒不能同在。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Cessation of Anger

We have all, I am sure, tried to subdue anger but somehow that does not seem to dissolve it. Is there a different approach to dissipate anger?

… Anger may spring from physical or psychological causes. One is angry, perhaps, because one is thwarted, one’s defensive reactions are being broken down, or one’s security, which has been carefully built up, is being threatened, and so on. We are all familiar with anger. How is one to understand and dissolve anger? If you consider that your beliefs, concepts, and opinions are of the greatest importance, then you are bound to react violently when questioned. Instead of clinging to beliefs and opinions, if you begin to question whether they are essential to one’s comprehension of life, then through the understanding of its causes there is the cessation of anger. Thus one begins to dissolve one’s own resistances, which cause conflict and pain. This again requires earnestness. We are used to controlling ourselves for sociological or religious reasons or for convenience, but to uproot anger requires deep awareness….

You say you are angry when you hear of injustice. Is it because you love humanity, because you are compassionate? Do compassion and anger dwell together? Can there be justice when there is anger, hatred? You are perhaps angry at the thought of general injustice, cruelty, but your anger does not alter injustice or cruelty; it can only do harm. To bring about order, you yourself have to be thoughtful, compassionate. Action born of hatred can only create further hatred. There can be no righteousness where there is anger. Righteousness and anger cannot dwell together.

JULY 19