Make Nibbida strong in you

The Buddha advised his son Rahula: "Make (Nibbida) disgust strong in you" (Sutta Nipata, v.340).

My brother Michael, a great scholar, did philological research into the Pali word for disgust: ["]{dir="rtl"}Nibbida". Here are his notes.              

*It really does mean disgust, the sick feeling you get when you see and smell someone's vomit. *

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The buddhist term ["]{dir="rtl"}Nibbida" means that you react to this world exactly as you react to a plate of vomit...

*But modern "interpretations" distort the word, to make it more pleasing to western ears.  They say it means "rejection... dislike..."  etc....  i.e. something mild and "spiritual"...   *

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We know that the Buddha, like many other masters, understood the need for "emotional rocket fuel" in order to achieve "escape velocity"...   it really doesn't matter much if it's "love of god" or "disgust with this world"  -- as long as it's a very intense [emotion]{.underline}.  Only then does the spirit begin its journey, just as the rocket cannot begin its space journey until it reaches "escape velocity" and breaks out of the grasp of the earth's gravitational field.

This is a key point that people miss when they think; love, love, love, is all you need.

No, that is not the greatest power, in fact, love is very weak as far as emotions go, it just makes you feel nice and comfy and lulls you to sleep. I can hear you yelling at me, NO WAY, love is so powerful. If I may correct you, that feeling you call love that you felt so intensely was most often lust, passion, sexual desire.

That is fine, it is still a powerful emotion, in fact that is one of the most powerful emotions behind creativity, but do not confuse it with the concept of the emotion of love.

First I will say that the use of sexual energy has long been taught in the tantric path, the Taoist esoteric teaching of sexual transmutation, and in more modern works such as a dedicated chapter in the book, 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill.

Open your arms in love towards an attacker and you will die. The idea that the aggressor will melt and start crying and hug you is only in the movies. Do not try that in real life if you are in that situation. Just look at the animal kingdom. Normally, an aggressor is met with aggression, or in the primate world, the weaker bows and cowers to the stronger aggressor, and who wins? The aggressor.

That is reality.

Use anger to fight for what you want. Use anger for injustice towards yourself or others as the rocket fuel to give you power and strength to do the impossible.

I worked for 11 years an average of 7AM to 2 AM without one day off, Christmas, New Year, nothing, not one day off for 11 years. I never had less than three jobs at the same time, and eventually I owned eight companies that I managed with staff. How could I work that hard, be so devoted? Because I was the angriest young man in the world, but I understood the power and my focus was to fight the injustice of my poverty and limitations so I used my anger to give me incredible power and creativity to retire at 28 years old.

Gandhi said: ["]{dir="rtl"}I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."

1 Become angry at the limitations that being human have imposed on your true unlimited nature.

2 Be disgusted with the weaknesses of your body, including how your desires for sex, food, whatever they may be, make you do things that you know are wrong and harmful to yourself and others.

3 Be determined to awaken to the truth of what you are and your unlimited potential to make anything happen. This could begin with building powerful self-discipline to master whatever you want.

Use the power of anger like nuclear energy, to power a city rather than a bomb.