Heaven in Thought

Osho, through the writings of Atisha, explains how to deal with anger:

"There are 3 difficulties in becoming aware. These are very essential for each seeker to understand. In fact everybody becomes aware, but only when the act is finished. 

1. One is becoming aware while the act is happening ... Anger is there like a smoke inside you. Becoming aware in the very thick of it, that is the first difficulty, but it is not impossible. ... In the beginning, you will see, you become aware when the anger has gone and everything has cooled. ... Try -- you will become aware after 5 minutes. Try a little more -- you will become aware immediately after one minute. Try a little more, and you will become aware when the anger is evaporating. Try a little more, and you will become aware exactly in the middle of it.

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2. The second step ... is remembering before the act: when the act has not happened yet but is still a thought in you; it has not been actualized but it has become a thought in your mind. It is there, potentially there like a seed; it can become the act at any moment.

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3. And the third difficulty is to catch hold of this process ... before it becomes a thought. That is the most difficult ... Before anything becomes a thought, it is a feeling. These are the three things: feeling comes first, then comes thought, then comes the act. You may not be aware at all that each thought is produced by a certain feeling. If the feeling is not there, the thought will not come. Feelings become actualized in thought, thought becomes actualized in the act."

- Osho, Book of Wisdom, p. 225- 226