Anger: Buddhist Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Please tell me all your suffering, all your pain. I am here, really listening.” And if you know how to go back to her, to him, and listen like that every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place. When you climb a beautiful mountain, invite your little child within to climb with you. When you contemplate the beautiful sunset, invite him

Every mental formation—anger, jealousy, despair, etc.—is sensitive to mindfulness the way all vegetation is sensitive to sunshine.

You only need to recognize that anger is a negative energy and that mindfulness is a positive one.

One hour of watering the flower in the other person can make him or her begin to bloom. It is not so difficult to do.

Smiling allows the energy of mindfulness to be born in you, helping you to embrace your anger.

The moment you are motivated by the desire to return to the other and help, you know that all the energy of anger has been transformed into the energy of compassion. Your practice has born fruit.

As enlightenment grows in you, confusion and ignorance will have to withdraw. It will not only influence your thinking, but also your body and your way of living.

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

The baby feels some relief because he is being held tenderly by his mother, like the flower embraced by the sunshine.