Speaker: Paul Greene. Paul reviews the Buddhist perspective on anger and identifies a variety of skillful means to work with it. Although Western culture sometimes seems to accept anger as appropriate and inevitable, Buddhism recognizes it as a poison that threatens our well-being and impedes our path to enlightenment. We can work with anger by recalling the egolessness of the self, the enlightened Buddha nature of all beings, the causes and conditions that give rise to situations, the negative karmic results of aggression, and the positive karmic results of allowing negative karmic seeds to ripen. From the perspective of the Mahayana path, the bodhisattva intention to benefit beings is dependent on our ability to overcome aggression.

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