Anger Talks

Anger, also known as wrath (UK: ROTH) or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong, uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.

A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion that triggers part of the fight or flight response. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force.

Anger can have many physical and mental consequences. The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times public acts of aggression. Facial expressions can range from inward angling of the eyebrows to a full frown. While most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of "what has happened to them", psychologists point out that an angry person can very well be mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability.

Modern psychologists view anger as a normal, natural, and mature emotion experienced by virtually all humans at times, and as something that has functional value for survival. Uncontrolled anger can negatively affect personal or social well-being and negatively impact those around them. While many philosophers and writers have warned against the spontaneous and uncontrolled fits of anger, there has been disagreement over the intrinsic value of anger. The issue of dealing with anger has been written about since the times of the earliest philosophers, but modern psychologists, in contrast to earlier writers, have also pointed out the possible harmful effects of suppressing anger.

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Think Neither Good Nor Bad

Sangha, resistance, Suzuki Roshi, Anger, Nirvana, Offering, Lay, confusion, Peace...
Apr 30 1997
Unknown

Intimacy

Serial: SF-02725

Sesshin #1 (Post-it note from Lou "Do you have a tape player? I'd like to check this one more time")

Intimacy, Anger, Suzuki Roshi, Bowing, Separation, Ego, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Jan 15 1997
Unknown

Be Completely Who You Are

Serial: SF-02709B

Rohatsu Sesshin

Emptiness, Suzuki Roshi, Happiness, Anger, Emotions, Zazen, Ceremony
Dec 05 1996
Unknown

Expounding the Dharma with This Body

Serial: SF-02710A

Rohatsu Sesshin

Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Patience, Gratitude, Observe, Balance, Anger
Dec 02 1996
Unknown

Including The Unincluded

Serial: SF-03136

Sunday Lecture - life, the path as the neverending journey of inclusiom that starts with ourselves where we are now, where we have been and from there just goes deep and deeper...

Forgiveness, Practice Period, Silence, Offering, Anger, Diversity, Ordination, Peace...
Oct 13 1996
Green Gulch

Practicing With Afflictive Emotions

Serial: SF-02722

Antidotes - Shantidvea/Dalai Lama/Hui Hai

Forgiveness, Anger, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Non-duality, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Oct 09 1996
Unknown

1996.09.28-serial.00089

Practice Period, Study Period, Bodhisattva Way, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Patience, Birth...
Sep 28 1996

1996.09.11-serial.00084

Serial: SF-00084

Wednesday talk.

Patience, Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, Letting Go, confusion, Demons, Absolute-and-...
Sep 11 1996
Green Gulch Farm

Secret Teachers In Life Who Guide Us

Serial: SF-03639

Sunday Lecture

Priest, Attachment, Precepts, training, Global Warming, Funeral, Balance, Anger,...
Sep 08 1996
Green Gulch

How To Continue Your Practice After Sesshin

Serial: SF-03631

Sunday Lecture - taking our understanding, our effort, into daily life

Daily Life, training, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Emotions, Impermanence, Hate,...
Aug 25 1996
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Hsin Hsin Ming, Zazen, Ordination, Practice Period, Obstacles, Mahayana, Anger,...
Aug 14 1996
Unknown

Cultivating A Spiritual Curiosity

Serial: SF-03937

Sunday Lecture - that helps us see clearly what's in front of us - inside and outside

Observe, Conversation, Happiness, Equanimity, Cultivation, Anger, Suzuki Roshi,...
Jul 07 1996
Green Gulch

Taking Care of Oneself, Others and Objects of the World

Serial: SF-02752

One-day sitting - Buddhist practice is just taking care of people, objects, spaces, body and mind.

Priest, Buddha Nature, Precepts, Nirvana Sutra, Bowing, Transmission, Buddha Mind,...
May 18 1996
Green Gulch

The Angulimala Story

Serial: SF-03226

Sunday Lecture - Children's talk

true dharma, Enemies, Karma, Letting Go, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Anger, Daily...
Mar 03 1996
Green Gulch

Women in Buddhism Class

Six Realms, Offering, Balance, Conversation, Ordination, Teacher-and-Student, Don...
Nov 20 1995
Unknown

The Greater Discourse and the Destruction of Craving

Serial: SF-03231

Sunday Lecture

Anger, Silence, Letting Go, Bell, Happiness, confusion, Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva...
Nov 19 1995
Green Gulch

Our Bodies and Our Practice

Serial: SF-03528

Wednesday Lecture

Mindfulness, Evil, Impermanence, Anger, Mill Valley, New Year, Instruction, Zendo,...
Sep 20 1995
Green Gulch

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