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Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy
What Ramana Maharshi taught is classic Vedantic Self-inquiry, and that is negating everything we are not. So it's not inquiring into the nature of anger but inquiring into the nature of Self and the only way to do that is to negate everything that isn't Self. The reason being just like the face cannot see itself neither can Self directly inquire into Itself.
If one goes deep enough into that line of inquiry even the "I" thought is negated and one is left with pure Awareness. Call it No-Mind or absence of Vrittis (modifications of mind i.e. thoughts).
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Taking this a bit further...
Anything that's limited by time, space and causation isn't Self. In other words anything that changes isn't Self. Self is ever-present and unchanging. Without limit. Body changes. Mind changes, Thoughts change. Emotions change. Memory changes. Knowledge changes. Beliefs change. What doesn't change is the Awareness within which all these arise, linger for a time and then subside. Anger isn't there, then it's there for a time and then it isn't there.
That's Step 1 of
Two Steps to the Not-Two: Swami Sarvapriyananda https://youtu.be/kPdsAPlK2Js