Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
Tara Brach
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The Power of Shouting When You're Angrily
The Buddha says getting angry with another person is like throwing cut coals with bare hands. Gandhi put it well, he said, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. And so to cover that distance, then a shout to be able to be heard by each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they have to shout trying to get through to the other over that distance. So we get familiar with our own patterning, whatever it happens to be, and start noticing the suffering that comes with it.
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