Loving Anger
Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

N O T E  – Due to technical difficulties, we couldn’t include this talk in our Audio Dharma library however we do have this handout that Rich provided the attendees – Loving Anger Resources (.pdf)

We may have idealized views of the spiritual path. We may not want to look at the shadow side of our personality. Yet “seeing things as they are” is the very meaning of “vipassana” or insight. It is only by allowing our anger, fear, and other challenging emotions to come into view and be known that we can move through them to a place of peace. At the same time, we must be wary of “spiritual bypassing,” a premature “transcendence” of uncomfortable emotions. As Rumi says in his poem The Guest House, “meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.” We will spend this evening learning to work with, and maybe even love, uncomfortable emotions, using anger as a case study.
This emotion is so important to understand that Thich Nhat Hanh has an entire book on it (“Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames”) and Bhikkhu Bodhi devotes Chapter III of “The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony” to anger (pages 47-68). Bring an open heart!

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