Healing Anger
Learn antidotes to anger, such as compassion and fortitude, and how to apply them to cool the heat of anger.
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Working with Anger
Teachings on "Working with Anger" given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day starting in 2025.
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Working with Anger
A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by working with our minds to frame situations differently. No matter what our religion, learning to work with anger can benefit us all.
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An Open-Hearted Life
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? An Open-Hearted Life offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (U.S. edition)
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Living with an Open Heart
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? Living with an Open Heart offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (UK edition)
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Related Series
Dealing with Anger (Tricycle 2006)
Telephone teachings on anger for Tricycle Magazine given May 10–31, 2006.
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Disarming the Mind Retreat (Italy 2017)
Teachings given during a retreat on “Disarming the Mind: Working with Anger for a Happier Life” at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Pomaia, Italy.
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Working with Anger and Developing Fortitude (Mexico 2015)
Teachings on chapter six of Shantideva’s Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds given at various venues in Mexico in April 2015. With consecutive translation into Spanish.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The Alternative of fortitude
Fortitude allows us to remain calm in the face of harm or difficulties.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Meditation on the disadvantages of anger
Reflection on how anger affects the body, mind and those around us.
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Is anger beneficial?
Questioning our assumptions about anger, it's causes and consequences.
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Meditation on the sense of self behind anger
Guided investigation of the "I" that feels anger.
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Meditation on how anger distorts our perception of o...
Meditation on how anger affects our view of others.
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Venerable Thubten Pema Guided meditation on examining anger
Meditation on examining the experience of anger and how it affects us.
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Anger, imputations and assumptions
We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree without clarifying.
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Anger and the self-centered mind
How to oppose the self-centered mind and more techniques for dealing with anger.
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Contemplating the faults of anger
Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.
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