This week we will read Easwaran’s article “Transforming Anger in Our Own Lives,” on pages 49–57 of the Blue Mountain Journal Gandhi & Nonviolence: Love in Action, Transforming Anger. Here Easwaran gives many practical suggestions for us to implement. He also highlights the benefits we will receive: “Returning kindness for unkindness is not simply being kind to that particular person. We are being kinder to ourselves, because we are undoing a compulsion, taking one more step towards being free.”
Is there some tip from Easwaran in this reading that you tend to skim over because you have already heard it many times before? Try focusing on it this week.
How is your evening routine going of turning off other media, reading from Easwaran for a few minutes, and then going to bed repeating the mantram?
As a spiritual bonus this week, we are pleased to share the next excerpt from our recent Easwaran video about Gandhi. Note that the full video is 31 minutes, but the excerpt goes from 8:30 – 17:54 and the player should start and stop automatically at those times. Of course, you are welcome to watch more.