On Anger, observation, middle path, and right action || Acharya Prashant, on Mahatma Buddha (2016)

Question: It is said that the sage doesn’t get angry for long time. Can you talk about this?

Speaker: Do you bother about how other people love? If you have a real relationship with anybody; with a child, with a dog, with a woman, do you bother about how other people love? Why must you bother so much about how that particular sage was behaving or acting or performing miracles? You have your own heart, and your own God, your own lover. Why don’t you look directly at Him? And if you are really a lover, would you look directly at your beloved or would you look around?

There is a beloved and you are experiencing a distance between you and Him, and that distance is your only desire. You want to get rid of the distance. Your eyes are set on your beloved. Now would you talk about this and that? Would you talk about what is happening in the neighbour’s house? Would you talk about how they behave and perform and talk? Tell me. Would all of that be of any importance to you?

L: No.

AP: Then why do you talk so much about other people’s lives?

Don’t you have your own Truth sitting in your heart? Don’t you have that great peace beckoning you as well? Yes? Why can’t you go directly and straight to it? Why do you need all these tortuous and convoluted ways? Why do you need to travel the universe to take one direct step? Why?