This is an email conversation between Ross and Michael:
Ross:Michael:I am enjoying your book. As a student of A course in Miracles Jesus tells us anger is never justified. It is a misperception. Your insights are very similar to the course presented in a different way but with the same ultimate conclusion as truth must always be. I am awareness you say. The course says “I am as God created me". Same conclusion.
Thank you Michael
Hi Ross
As for anger it does have a place. If anger was always bad Jesus would have lost his sage hood when he got angry at the money lenders in the temple.
In fact all of your emotions have a place in life. For a sage they are like tools in his tool chest. You use the right tool for the right job, right? The time when you have to examine yourself is when you attempt to use a sledge hammer to drive in a finishing nail.
When you emotions get out-of-whack
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When your emotions are not appropriate for the situation, it is a sure sign that you are feeling limited by some conceptual framework and reacting off of it. For instance if you find yourself constantly getting angry with your wife, the person that you are supposed to love, it is time to look and see what you are taking to be true.Here are some questions that you can ask yourself in order to unfurl these concepts: do you think she has the ability to give you your innate happiness, and then to destroy it? Did you learn certain behaviors from your parents that you just repeat without looking at them to see if they are really the best way to have a relationship?
To get to the very root of anger just inquire: How are you viewing the world, yourself, and your mind? If you find a limiting or negative view of these, you will have found the root of your concept. Then you can rejoice because as a spiritual seeker, what you can see you are free of.
You can find your freedom and struggle no more
If you just attempt to control anger, you are in for a struggle. That’s because you are taking the anger to be real with the ability to take you over at any moment. So you have the impossible job of being constantly on guard. However if you can root out the conceptual frameworks that make the anger seem so real, it will magically disappear without you having to do anything except abide in your natural state.
If you find yourself having to control your emotions, know that you can go one step further and find your freedom. The only thing I can say is when you become aware of limiting concepts, the next time the situation that is supposed to limit you comes up, you will be surprised by how much freedom you feel, and even your response may be different than you could have anticipated.
I agree with the conclusion: it is very relaxing to just be yourself without the need for any image. That's the way God meant you to be.
Best Wishes
Ross:
Thank you again. Still progressing with book, incidentally I have a book called "Divine healing of mind and body" through Dr Murdo McDonald- Bayne in which Jesus gave 14 talks through a transfiguration in 1948. In it he says about the turning of the tables in the temple was an extreme teaching example but that he wasn't angry. It is interesting but I do not mean it to be controversial. All that matters is the love we are as you state in your book.Hi Ross,
Blessings.
Ross
- We walk with God in perfect holiness
Love is the deepest emotion
What you may notice about anger is that it is not the opposite of love. For instance when you stop your child who is about to bolt across a busy street, you may get angry, but your real motivation is loving protection.
Love is deeper than any other emotion. That's because it comes from our innate oneness, which is our real identity. It is also the one emotion that needs no cause, as love just is.
If fact, none of our emotions are powerful enough to block this innate oneness. If anger seems to block love, it is time to meditate so that you can again stand as the source of love.
Jesus used anger; it did not use him
Jesus was using anger as a tool to show the moneylenders that the temple was a symbol for something that was greater than materialism. He was just standing up for what was right, but of course he didn't lose his identity, God which is our real identity too.
You should know that here you are always free to ask questions. After all, this is the path for the curious. So how can I be insulted by your great questions and comments?
As you contemplate more on Self-Knowledge you will find that nothing in the mind can block that which you really are. In fact not even birth and death can obscure your being. When you wake up you really do die before you die, and then you never die again.
Remember, you are the witness to the passing of the body and the changes to your mind. You are not the one caught in them.
Feel free to ask questions
Now I want you to experience your true identity in its full glory. So please
feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your
reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path
of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows
you to abide in your natural freedom.
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Michael Gluckman
