Anger: Buddhist Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Embrace your anger with a lot of tenderness. Your anger is not your enemy, your anger is your baby. It’s like your stomach or your lungs. Every time you have some trouble in your lungs or your stomach, you don’t think of throwing them away. The same is true with your anger. You accept your anger because you know you can take care of it; you can tra

You won’t regard anyone as an enemy when you have penetrated the reality of inter-being.

Non-violence can be born only from the insight of non-duality, of inter-being. This is the insight that everything is interconnected and nothing can exist by itself alone.

Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself.

Mindfulness contains the energy of concentration, understanding, and compassion.

If you are capable of removing the wrong perception, peace and happiness will be restored in you, and you will be able to love the other person again.

The dharma is in you, but it also needs to be watered, in order to manifest and become a reality.

If you know how to practice mindful breathing, smiling, and walking meditation, it is certain that you will find relief in five, ten, or fifteen minutes.

What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote for anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion.