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ALL THE RAGE : Buddhist Wisdom On Anger And Acceptance

Andrea Miller
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Leading Psychologists And Meditation Teachers Explain How Mindfulness Can Help Us Work With Our Anger And Ultimately Transform It Into Compassion.

Remarks Free Cover-Pages Wrapping
ISBN 9781611801712
Book Condition BRAND NEW
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Shambhala Publications
Publication Date 07 Oct 2014
Pages 288
Weight 0.51 kg
Dimension 23 × 15.3 × 2 cm
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★★ A collection of essays dealing with anger, blame and forgiveness. ★★
 
Anger. For all of us, it’s a familiar feeling—jaw clenching, face flushing, hands shaking. We feel it for rational and irrational reasons, on a personal and on a global level. If we know how to handle our anger skillfully, it is an effective tool for helping us recognize that a situation needs to change and for providing the energy to create that change. Yet more often anger is destructive—and in its grip we hurt ourselves and those around us.
 
In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness practice can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being. It also offers us a way of dealing with strong emotions, like anger.
 
This anthology offers a Buddhist perspective on how we can better work with anger and ultimately transform it into compassion, with insight and practices from a variety of contributors, including Thich Nhat Hanh, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Carolyn Gimian, Tara Bennett-Goleman, Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Jules Shuzen Harris, Christina Feldman, Mark Epstein, Ezra Bayda, Judith Toy, Noah Levine, Judy Lief, Norman Fischer, Jack Kornfield, Stan Goldberg, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrül, and many others.


◆ The first Part, “Understanding Anger,” looks at the origin of this emotion and how it impacts our relationships and sense of well-being. Thich Nhat Hanh begins by explaining that in our subconscious mind, we all have negative seeds such as anger, yet we also have positive seeds such as joy, understanding, and compassion. Whenever one of our seeds manifests in our conscious mind, that seed becomes stronger and more likely to manifest again. We cannot eradicate any particular seed, says Thich Nhat Hanh, but we can choose which seeds to water.
 
◆ Part 2, “Practicing with Anger,” focuses on concrete methods. The teachings in this section include Sister Chan Khong’s “Beginning Anew,” which emphasizes communication. We can learn to listen openly to the grievances others have against us, she says, and likewise we can learn to express our hurt or angry feelings without lashing out.

In this way we find solutions to problems rather than add fuel to the fire. “Practicing with Anger” also features lively first-person pieces that provide examples of Buddhist practitioners grappling with anger in daily life. In her interaction with her young son, Karen Connelly sees that she gets back whatever emotion she herself expresses. Through his misadventures with irksome members of his sangha, Shozan Jack Haubner discovers that the people in our life don’t get in the way of our spiritual practice; these people are our spiritual practice.
 
“Going Beyond Blame” is the third section. It focuses on letting go of blame at both the personal and societal levels. In “No Blame,” Sylvia Boorstein gets to the heart of the matter: The results of ignorance—greed, hatred, and delusion—are the real causes of conflict, not particular people, political parties, or countries. So while there may be people who we could name—and blame—as culprits, we would all be better served by recognizing ignorance as the true enemy. Grounded in this understanding we would then be inspired to right any wrong doing in a way that is at once firm and loving.
 
◆ Part 4, “Finding Forgiveness,” deals with softening our anger to- ward those who have hurt us. Moreover, since many of us carry around guilt for past actions, this section also deals with forgiving ourselves. It’s important to remember that forgiveness isn’t about condoning harmful behavior but, rather, attending to our own hurt and thereby recognizing that the person who harmed us also hurts.

Forgiveness, when approached in this way, is an important step in finding resolution, and Judith Toy illustrates this perfectly in her moving story. She lost three family members in a calculated murder, and it was only through forgiving the perpetrator that she was able to heal.
 
◆ The anthology’s final section is about cultivating compassion, especially in the face of anger and aversion. The pieces in this section are full of love, though not the airy-fairy hearts-and-flowers kind. This love is one that can endure the real and often difficult world.
 
The Buddhist teacher Noah Levine looks back on the dangerous years he spent high on drugs and frequently in jail, and he concludes that loving-kindness doesn’t protect us from being physically hurt. It does, however, protect us from hatred and all of the suffering that comes with such hatred and in that way loving-kindness does make the world a safer place.

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