Don’t fight it, don’t try to distract your mind into something else. Don’t go to see a movie because you are feeling very sad. Don’t try to repress your feeling. It is a great opportunity for meditation.
Just watch from where the anger arises. Just go to the very roots. Just go to the very roots from where the sadness is coming — and the greatest surprise is that it doesn’t have any roots. So when you look for the roots, by that time your emotions start disappearing seeing that, “This man is strange — he is looking for the roots!” And those afflictions, emotions, sentiments, feelings — none of them have any roots. They are just clouds, without any roots, surrounding your mind.
So, if you start looking for roots, your emotions start dispersing — “This is not the right man, he is not going to be affected by us. He is a little strange; here we are, and he is looking for the roots!”
Rather than being sad, rather than being angry, rather than being miserable — search for the roots! Every sentiment, every emotion, every feeling will disappear if you look for the roots. If your awareness goes that deep in search, then the emotion will be gone, and the sky of your inner being will be absolutely clear and clean.
