Inappropriate attention, attachment, and anger
10 Working with Anger
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Working with Anger 
May 3, 2026 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 meditation on factors that cause anger to arise
- Looking at our inappropriate attention and how it functions
- We all see and experience things in a different way
- The relationship between attachment and anger
- We project qualities into things and persons
- Positive aspiration is different than attachment
- Anger and attachment are based on inaccurate projections
- Seeing the destructive force of anger
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.
