Anger

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.

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.

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.

When a person’s speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers

because he was like a bomb ready to explode.

Compassionate listening is a very deep practice. You listen not to judge or to blame. You listen just because you want the other person to suffer less.

You have to focus on the practice of listening with all your attention,