Overcoming anger and frustration

Meditation and motivation

• Meditation
• Setting a proper motivation for listening to the teaching

OAF 01: Motivation (download)

Anger and patience

• The importance of setting a motivation
• Definitions of anger and patience

OAF 02: Anger and patience (download)

Anger is not beneficial

• Identifying the effects of anger
• Determine whether being angry is ever positive

OAF 03: Anger not beneficial (download)

Antidotes to anger: Part 1

• Owning our anger instead of blaming others
• Rethinking self-preoccupation
• Learning to care for ourselves and others in a wise way

OAF 04: Antidotes (download)

Antidotes to anger: Part 2

• How we create our own suffering through our rigid, fixed opinions
• Techniques to counter anger and the judgmental mind

OAF 05: Antidotes (download)

Questions and answers

• Does parents’ attachment to their children hinder the children’s spiritual growth?
• How do we handle a colleague who is impatient and demanding?
• Can you talk about homosexuality?
• Does karma play a part in our getting angry?
• Getting angry with one’s girlfriend due to mistrust
• Being enlisted in the army
• Attachment to one’s partner
• How can we help someone who is shuts herself off from the world and is constantly angry with the people around her?
• Is it okay to show anger with good motivation?
• How do you keep your patience with someone who drinks a lot and refuses to change?
• How do you help someone who is manic depressive?
• How do you help a person who is self-centered?
• The importance of understanding how our actions can effect our future lives
• How to deal with other people pushing their religions on you
• Cloning

OAF 06: Q&A (download)

Conclusion and dedication

OAF 07: Conclusion and dedication (download)

Also refer to Section II of Open Heart, Clear Mind: Working Effectively with Emotions.