Thank you for sharing that, I appreciate it. I do believe I have confused the two many times. And I also believe that my inaction has turned into emotion at times as you alluded to. Interesting.
[QUOTE=Awwware;50776]The pot calls the kettle black. That’s the last thing you will ever hear from me. I withdraw from this forum, because this is not the first time I encounter hostilities. It would be a good thing if a moderator checks once in a while and kicks out people who cannot refrain from vulgar calling names.[/QUOTE]
Awwware, you really should not leave the forum just because of the actions of a few people. Yes, unfortunately, and I do note the irony of the violent and abusive behaviour and name calling on a yoga forum of all places. At the same time these people allow people like you and me to learn the skill of indifference. Patanjali prescribes this in order to deal with people of lower character.
If you left, there would be one less sensible, educated and mature yogi on this forum. You represent the guna of sattva, and they to the guna of tamas. If sattva weakens on this forum, then tamas becomes dominant. So by you staying and contributing, you will will keep the tamas in the forum in check. When the abusive behaviour gets too much, just put the offending person on your official ignore list and move on. There are many good members on this forum who deserve the company of good members like you 
[QUOTE=David;50781]Thank you for sharing that, I appreciate it. I do believe I have confused the two many times. And I also believe that my inaction has turned into emotion at times as you alluded to. Interesting.[/QUOTE]
The first three chapters of the Gita give valuable advise on taking action. I believe this advise can be applied to dealing with a situation, which gives rise to a build up of ‘internal fire.’
Perhaps, a big part of the practice is quite simply being aware of internal energies, and how they affect the health of our system. If an emotion is causing stress to internal balance, it should be released along with the pattern behind it. That ‘pattern’ usually stems from an unwillingness to let go of past situations, which have caused a stressful reaction. A past emotional injury. Unless an injury is healed it worsens and spreads, rather like running with an injured, untreated knee.
Learning discrimination as to what constitutes an appropriate response in a given ‘stressful’ situation, is something I still struggle with! But I believe it comes from intuition developed through hours of regular practice…
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Absolutely, although as I’ve aged, I’ve become more mature, and sober, and able to control my anger. In the past, I’ve knocked people out, broken my hand punching a wall, Sworn at people and threatened violence, started fights either by shoving or verbally aggravating, broken many many objects etc. I take my anger out now in my training. I am also far more mature and reasonable then I was when I was younger[/quote]
You really are hilarious Adam.If only you could see yourself.
Me not arrogant(intellectually)…not immature(mentally as well as spiritually).
Hahahahhahah
Like a good old wine, i see…
yes quite often actually. I have tons of anger towards whatever power decided to take my vision, rob me of the chance to do many things with my children, robbed me of a successful career in architecture, and has so far kept me from an alternative career. Hell a legally blind person can’t even get a volunteer gig. Also the way people treat one with a “disability”. You are treated like a 15 year old retarded kid.
So yes I work with anger alot. I channel into my weight training, and yoga. You can really generate some serious power from it, physically and emotionally.
Physical violence once last summer, some dude almost hit my kids doing 45 down our street. He slammed on his brakes, got out, and told my kids they were retarded and my wife was fat. First time I ever hit anyone and it was a KO.
I’ve come to realize that I was supposed to learn compassion from this whole thing. Lesson learned, can I be dismissed now?
[QUOTE=Awwware;50776]The pot calls the kettle black. That’s the last thing you will ever hear from me. I withdraw from this forum, because this is not the first time I encounter hostilities. It would be a good thing if a moderator checks once in a while and kicks out people who cannot refrain from vulgar calling names.[/QUOTE]
I can’t tell if this is meant to be funny in light of the thread topic:-?
For the record, I check in all the time. I don’t read every post or every thread, but I do check on every reported post.
If I kicked everyone out who cannot refrain from vulgarity, anger, attacks, lack of humility, etc, then there would be VERY FEW people here. I myself would be long gone. 
In my opinion, kicking out people who are imperfect in their practice is, well, violent. Would you kick a student out of your class for having improper alignment in trikonasana? Of course not. But we want to kick people out of the studio for not being properly aligned emotionally. Usually because we aren’t either and we’re projecting. Naturally there’s always exceptions and I’m happy to look at every case separately if posts are reported.
It’s a practice. I let people practice. I don’t expect perfection on this forum. The entire world is filled with hostility. We can choose to run off to a hermitage when we experience hostility or we can find peace in the marketplace and allow ourselves to be infinitely more vulnerable. Yes, I’m sure most of us have missed the point and keep on running the other direction screaming at others to follow us. But hopefully one day we’ll wake up and turn around.
Welcome to the marketplace. If you want to really test how grounded you are, head to the religion forum for awhile
Thank you very much for your posting. That is excellent advice your teacher gave you, and I don’t care who you are or how long you’ve been on this path - (myself included) we could stand to be reminded of this.