Originally posted by Cenarious:
do i let loose all my negativities or hide them by force, when i still get too personal in some stuff etc? (not enough wisdom to see them as conditions)
In this case one must suppress it. To prevent even greater karma. But one must progress from that 'suppression stage' to the 'elimination stage', because supression is only temporary and does not solve the problem at its cause. And as namelessness said, supressed thoughts will return.
Chanting is a useful method to suppress these thoughts. Chanting has three levels. First is like putting a stone on weed to prevent them from growing (i.e supressing). Second level is to uproot the weed (this level = arhat/hinayana). Third level is 'no-no-chanting' or 'no-no-thought' (wu wu nian), is even higher, it is bodhisattva level.
You can supress first but then later one must go beyond supressing, and uproot the 'weed'.