You must go back and put out the fire. So when you are angry, if you continue to interact with or argue with the other person, if you try to punish her, you are acting exactly like someone who runs after the arsonist while everything goes up in flames.

Listen with only one purpose: to allow the other person to express himself and find relief from his suffering. Keep compassion alive during the whole time of listening.

To eat well, we should chew our food about fifty times before we swallow.

Learning to listen to the other person can really help her to transform her anger and suffering.

We have to take very good care of our body if we want to master our anger. The way we eat, the way we consume, is very important.

The making of alcohol also involves creating suffering. The use of the grains in its production is linked to the lack of food in the world. Mindfulness of eating and drinking can bring us this liberating insight.

It needs only one conscious breath to be back in contact with yourself and everything around you, and three conscious breaths to maintain the contact.

Anger Is Not Strictly a Psychological Reality

A film is like a piece of beefsteak. It can contain anger. If you consume it, you are eating anger, you are eating frustration. Newspaper articles, and even conversations, can contain a lot of anger.