Aggression
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Aggression is one of the three root kleshas, along with passion and ignorance/bewilderment.
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Types of Aggression
According to Patrul Rinpoche, the abhidharma categorizes aggression in three types: analytical aggression, sudden wind aggression, and underlying aggression.
Analytical Aggression
Analytical aggression is characterized by using intellect to prove you're correct, and that others are wrong, thus propping up ego. It is an intellectual attack on others and on openness.
Sudden Wind Aggression
Sudden wind aggression in characterized by abrupt, obtuse, violent outbursts. This type of aggression is often focused on close friends and family.
Underlying Aggression
Underlying aggression is just that; a deep feeling of needing to protect oneself, that results in a constant aggressive state. Sometimes outwardly, but always inwardly, underlying aggression frames our relationship to the world.
Transformed Aggression
Aggression, when absent of ego, is considered not a klesha, but an enlightened energy. In the absence of ego, aggression is transformed into vajra energy, mirror-like wisdom.
Vajra energy, or mirror-like wisdom, can be further studied in Maitri Space Awareness or in vajrayana teachings.
Quotes
"Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution."[1] - Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
See Also
References
Further reading
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham, Sakyong (1999) 1999 Seminary Transcripts Book 2
- pages 92-93, 97-98, 109, 129, 182
Mipham, Sakyong (2000) 2000 Seminary Transcripts Book 1
- pages 2, 7, 15
- pages 22-23, 44
- sowing seed of,
- page 35
- as a misunderstanding,
- page 45
- and beings in the form realm,
- page 52
- in the human realm,
- page 53
- contemplating,
- page 59
- mind is distracted by,
- page 60
- and the nidanas,
- page 71
- and the third degeneration,
- page 74
- not falling back into,
- page 79
- and belief in a self, and rebirth, 25
- page 102
- what do thoughts do?,
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa, Chögyam (1973) 1973 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- page 122
Trungpa, Chögyam (1974) 1974 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- pages 27, 74, 137
Trungpa, Chögyam (1975) 1975 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- pages 57, 89, 112-115, 119, 121, 122, 129-190, 195-197, 140, 141
Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) 1976 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- pages 15, 85, 86, 110, 111, 130, 136, 146
Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
- pages 10, 59, 105, 157, 158;
- pages 21-22, 153
- as ego strategy,
- pages 37-40
- characterizing hell realm,
- pages 79, 154-55
- transmutting,
Trungpa, Chögyam (1978) 1978 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 40, 51, 53, 104, 112, 140, 141, 143-144, 145-146
Trungpa, Chögyam (1979) 1979 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 26, 39, 40, 49, 60, 73, 84, 97, 98-99, 104, 109, 129, 131, 134
Trungpa, Chögyam (1980) 1980 Seminary Transcripts
- page 122
Trungpa, Chögyam (1981) 1981 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 6, 16, 17, 19-20, 23, 36, 66, 68, 93, 96
- pages 109-110
- as obstacle to patience
- pages 99-100
- heat of
Trungpa, Chögyam (1982) 1982 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 2, 3, 79, 82, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107-8, 114, 119, 127
Trungpa, Chögyam (1983) 1983 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 3, 20, 38, 41, 43
- page 58
- in tonglen
Trungpa, Chögyam (1984) 1984 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 47-48, 50, 54, 73
- in tonglen
Trungpa, Chögyam (1985) 1985 Seminary Transcripts
- page 69
Trungpa, Chögyam (1988) Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior
- pages 28, 107-108, 118-119
Trungpa, Chögyam (2002) Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- pages 48, 87, 107, 182
- expression of,
- pages 98, 104-5, 125, 236;
- pages 101-2
- in love,
- pages 138-40, 146
- in Hell Realm,
- pages 224-5
- Vajra and,
