Meditation on exploring if anger is useful
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Working with Anger 
Sep 14, 2025 A guided meditation led at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day. You can also view the complete video of the session including the teaching on "The fallacy of anger".
- Setting an altruistic motivation
- Guided relaxation
- Silent meditation on the breath
- Guided analytic meditation
- Recall an experience when you were angry
- See whether or not you can detect if you have a sense that the anger was justified
- Do we need anger to recognize that someone’s behavior is wrong?
- Recognizing harmful thoughts in our own mind helps us recognize harmful actions of others
- Anger clouds our mind and makes our mind agitated
- With a calm mind we can assess a situation better
- Conclusion
- Dedication
Meditation on exploring if anger is useful (download)
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
