Introduction
This is one of a series of incantations I have used to attain nibbana – the total end of suffering.
If you would like to use this tool, it might be helpful to understand the larger context within which it is intended to be used …
Understanding and using the incantion
The incantation
1: When anger arises …
May the compulsion to violence
of the lower self
be restrained by the higher self.
Ahimsa!
Non-violence!
2: When anger arises …
May the compulsion to hostility
of the lower self
be restrained by the higher self.
Metta!
Non-hostility!
3: When anger arises …
May the higher self take control
and transform this anger into
aversion.
skillful aversion.
skillfully targeted.
skillfully calibrated.
skillful aversion
to protect
to select
to isolate and
to discern that which is unskillful from that which is skillful.
skillful aversion
to fuel
the construction of an impenetrable barrier before that which is unskillful.
and
the destruction of all barriers before that which is skillful
so that
from a place of safety
THIS PART of my predictive model of the world
which is responsible for the suffering
which gives rise to the anger …
THIS BELIEF
that happiness depends upon
the satiation of
THIS DESIRE for
THIS SENSORY EXPERIENCE …
THIS BELIEF
that the underlying need
which I am seeking to meet
can ONLY be met by
the satiation of
THIS DESIRE for
THIS SENSORY EXPERIENCE
at THIS TIME
so that
THIS VIEW that I am clinging to …
THIS PART of my predictive model of the world
which is responsible for the suffering
which gives rise to the anger …
can be identified, isolated and renounced.
Nekkhamma!
Renunciation!
These are the 3 right intentions.
ahimsa: non-violence
metta: non-hostility
nekkama: renunciation