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be: “Why is it so easy for me to be angry?” And, “What is the way to extinguish anger?” The way to extinguish anger is to extinguish the feeling of “us”. Remove the feeling of “us”. When we remove the feeling of “us”, we are extinguishing egoistic pride (mana-ditthi), correct? People with a lot of egoistic pride are inclined to anger, are bad-tempered. By nature, people are different. Some have angry nature and are temperamental, easy to anger. Some anger easily and cool down easily. Some anger easily but cool down slowly.
The thing that we practice here, we contemplate the emergence-cessation phenomenon. We know how to extinguish conscious phenomena—in order to experience the nature of the mind. In reality, the conscious phenomena that we experience, they exist for a moment and then cease, we really understand their nature. But, once the phenomena touch us and we become the receiver, having “us” as the experiencer, then these phenomena impact us fully. Then, we spread the impact to others. Observe that when we are happy, we wish to share that happiness with others, correct? Similarly, when we are full of anger, we start to share it with others. When nobody wishes to share that anger, then we become dissatisfied. We wish to impose that anger on to others: “You must listen to me. You must listen to me!” When the other person walks away, we become agitated. We rarely think about positive feelings.