The Upper Hand on Anger in Buddhist Thought

McRae: We can choose the intensity with which we feel anger through cultivating spiritual practices of meditation and contemplation. Nusbaum's claim is that the metabolizing process has to yield a final product that doesn't look anything like the original ingredients, right? And she uses the term love a lot, the love that we feel or the grief event that we feel as a result of an anger-inducing situation will never have any of the qualities of anger or rage. So it disappears completely ideally.

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