The Anger You Felt Yesterday Is Not Here Anymore

When we’re lost in thought, we tend not to notice certain things about the nature of our minds.

For instance, every thought or feeling you’ve ever had, good or bad, has arisen...

and then passed away.

The anger or anxiety you felt yesterday...

isn’t here anymore.

And if one of these emotions arises in the next moment because you’re identified with certain thoughts, it will once again pass away when you are no longer thinking about it.

This is a profoundly important truth about the mind, and it can be absolutely liberating to understand it deeply.

If you do understand it deeply, it actually becomes impossible to feel an emotion like anger for more than a few moments at a time.

And if you think you can stay angry for a day or even an hour without continually manufacturing this emotion by thinking,

without knowing that you’re thinking (distracted),

you are mistaken.

This is an objective claim about the mechanics of your own subjectivity, and I invite you to test it.

And meditation is the method you can use to test it.