The fallacy of anger
06 Working with Anger
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Working with Anger 
Sep 14, 2025 Part of a series of talks based on Working with Anger given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day starting in April, 2025. Written by Venerable Thubten Chodron the book presents a variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by working with our minds to frame situations differently.
- Guided analytic meditation on exploring if anger is useful
- Setting an altruistic motivation
- Guided body relaxation
- Breathing meditation
- Analytic meditation
- Opening your mind to learning about and caring about others
- Is anger essential for winning at sports?
- Is anger a protective biological response? Is it hard wired?
- We need each other to survive
- Survival of the most cooperative
- Anger agitates the mind and prevents thinking clearly
- Questions and answers
An audio recording of the guided meditation is also available.
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
