The Empty Boat — How to Remain Centered When Activated by Anger

“If you are on your honeymoon, the moon looks beautiful, miraculous, wonderful. It seems that the whole world is different. And on the same night, just for your neighbor, this miraculous night may not be in existence at all. His child has died — then the same moon is just sad, intolerable. But for you it is enchanting, fascinating; it is maddening.

“Why? Is the moon the source or is the moon just a screen and you are projecting yourself?

“When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question — or on the object in question.

“Remain centered. Remember that you are the source, so do not move to the other, move to the source. When you feel hate, do not go to the object. Go to the point from where the hate is coming. Go not to the person to whom it is going, but to the center from where it is coming. Move to the center, go within.

“Use your hate or love or anger or anything as a journey toward your inner center, to the source.

“Move to the source and remain centered there.

“Someone has insulted you — anger suddenly erupts, you are feverish. Anger is flowing toward the person who has insulted you. Now you will project this whole anger onto him. He has not done anything. If he…