Inner fury!

Tibetan thangka, depicting
the wrathful goddess
Palden Lhamo (དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།)

Inner fury!
Tuesday – January 13, 2026

In life, at least in life under material circumstances, you're going to deal with rage and fury, and it would seem that this inner fury, if you will, is something that the material order in particular tends to promote. I don't believe that fury or indeed rage are bad things, but the way in which they are expressed tend towards bad things, at least in our material world. See, I am sure that you've heard of people that tell you to seek to greatness as you allow the fury to fill you up with motivation, motivation towards action and movement, and yes this may seem fine, and it may even, for a short while, promote some material success, but in the end relying of fury to fuel your motivation is an enterprise that is destined to fail, and either you're fury will slowly fade away, or it will turn into blind rage, and then you have turned against yourself. No, this way of dealing with inner fury is really what can only be described as lacking in skills, even though the intention might be good and even perhaps grounded in something metaphysical and not merely material and narrow, but you see, in the end this enterprise is material and narrow in scope, something I will deal with later on. Yes, I do believe that you should understand your inner fury, and I believe that the first and most important insight is this: your inner fury exists for a reason, often because you can sense and detect something external that is not right, really an injustice. This can be thought of as a representation of Kali, the force of destruction in Hindu mythology; indeed, something must be destroyed in order to set the world right, in order to balance the scales of the celestial order, and to that end you may choose the worst option: to allow all your inner fury to take its most outward and material expression in the form of an uncontrollable rage, that more often than not will turn violent, but this would, in most cases at any rate, be futile. No, there are two other ways of channeling your inner fury that can be described as skillful, with the other being more skillful than the former: in this case I am referring again to that aforementioned method of using fury to productive and material means; but the second and really masterly approach to fury is indeed at first complete and pure metaphysical contemplation, really a form of meditation that can be thought of as extracting knowledge, in order to know exactly what it is that has evoked this strong response within, and this can then be used to attain a higher metaphysical level and awareness, of yourself and of the world. Indeed, the latter approach to fury is surely the most skillful way to treat something that is wrong with the world, instead of simply reacting and allowing yourself to act out in the world, for that impulse to act out fury is really the lowest form of humanity, and could be argued not human at all. Yes, you should seek to allow fury to make you the master of your own domain, and this is essentially another insight that can be derived from a more pacific and peaceful approach to the world, even a radically so. No, to act is not skillful, at least not without contemplation, and every step towards contemplation and towards a higher metaphysical knowledge will always be superior to mere action, even though Western Civilization seems to regard action as the only heroic mode of being, yet another sign of its decline.

    I do not intend to go on too long about the practicality of this latter approach, but I do want to provide some light insight at least. If you intend to channel your inner fury and really make yourself the master of your own domain, you probably need to understand the basics of meditation and deep contemplation; indeed, you probably need to learn at first to appreciate contemplation and its relationship to action, and really in practice learn to subordinate action to contemplation, but if you are a westerner this is likely a completely foreign concept to you, and that is why I encourage you to read and learn from the East; use whatever vestiges and artifacts that remain of some primordial tradition to move closer to an understanding of contemplation. The temporal without context and origin reigns supreme in the West, and this is really perhaps the main source of all the modern confusions.

    Rage and fury are necessary components of life in our world, and I believe that the best way of describing them is as complementary towards the same goal: the restoration of the cosmological equilibrium, but rage is a less skillful and a subordinate force that can only be derived from fury, and while I tend to avert and object to most applications of fury in the form of rage, there are it must be said certain occasions on which rage is acceptable, but more on that here. Fury is the originator of pure metaphysical awareness, and this metaphysical awareness is always impure in it's most material and practical form, rage, and that's why I have a strong aversion towards rage, but again there are surely occasions that call for righteous fury, such in the case of Kali, and perhaps this is most likely the case at the close of the Kali Yuga, but more on that as well another time. Inner fury is a source that tells you something about your own relation to the metaphysical order; either you choose to use this information in a useful and skillful manner, or you allow yourself to yet again take on the beastly form and and lower yourself to the lowest level, that of uncontrolled rage, the choice can only be yours.

Reginald Drax – January 13, 2026.