Healing Fear & Aggression with Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity
Instinctually, human beings respond to danger with either fear or aggression, the so-called "Flight or Fight Reaction". Unsurprisingly, with the dangers of the pandemic relentlessly presented in all media for the last two years, we can observe a lot of anxiety and anger building up by now. Unfortunately, both are unwholesome mindstates and can easily lead to creation of bad karma. Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to make a New Year's Reolution to heal all that fear and aggression by developing the four 'Divine Abodes' ('Brahmavihāras):Loving Kindness 'Mettā'Compassion 'Karuṇā'Sympathetic Joy 'Muditā'Equanimity 'Upekkhā'Based on these four extremely wholesome mindstates, we can respond to any challenges skilfully.www.dhammagiri.netwww.facebook.com/dhammagiri-forest-hermitagewww.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJwwww.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive