If a rooster comes he pecks at his reflection and thinks he's got an enemy. That is how we are tricked by thought. So, when the rooster goes, the reflection goes and the mirror is empty. It is empty. Its nature is to reflect.
Anger is like that.
It can't harm the mind if you know its nature. And here you are, Ven. Pannasami was studying the sayadaw intensely. In this quiet moment I glanced down at the street where some Indian labourers were arguing. The sayadaw and Pannasami were too absorbed to notice.