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 which 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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Medicine and Science Mutual Cure

Serial: BZ-02454

 Blue Cliff Record Case 87

 

BCR-87, Anger, Duality, Manjushri, Peace, Forgiveness, War, Blue Cliff Record,...
Jan 16 2016

Dizang Planting the Fields

Serial: BZ-02452

 Case 12

 

Separation, resistance, New Year, Doubt, Peace, Passions, Anger
Jan 02 2016

Suzuki Roshi Eko Lectures: 8 Dhyana Jhana

Serial: BZ-02451

 Rohatsu Day 4

 

Passions, Echo, Concentration, Anger, Karma, Emotions, Nirvana, Beginners, Aspects of...
Dec 02 2015

Yunmen

Serial: BZ-02441

Aspects of Practice

 

Emotions, Book of Serenity, Heart Sutra, Lineage, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Aspects of...
Oct 24 2015

2015.08.17-serial.00149

Precepts, Lay, Vinaya, Meditation, Samsara, Intention, lecture, Sangha, Anger,...
Aug 17 2015

What Is Acceptance

Forgiveness, Two Truths, Dependent Origination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Darkness and...
Aug 08 2015

How Change Happens

Big Mind, Global Warming, American, Practice Period, Interview, Liberation, New Year...
Jun 27 2015

Aspects of Consciousness

Serial: BZ-02418

PP Class 4

 

Mindfulness, Discrimination, Karma, Subject-and-Object, Offering, Ego, Anger,...
May 28 2015
4

Aspects of Consciousness

Serial: BZ-02415

PP Class 3

 

Anger, Emotions, Intuition, Subject-and-Object, Attachment, Interview, Gaining Mind,...
May 21 2015
3

What Is Our Self

Continuous, Renunciation, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Karma, Greed...
May 09 2015

Radical Acceptance

Four Noble Truths, Conversation, Karma, Mahayana, Lay, Anger, Attachment
Feb 28 2015

Rohatsu Day 5

resistance, Ego, Four Foundations, Posture, Observe, Anger, Harmonizing, Describe,...
Dec 04 2014

The Widow's Son

Karma, confusion, Tassajara, Building, Anger, Lay
Aug 16 2014

Teaching for the Tenzo

Big Mind, Monastic Practice, Emotions, stubbornness, Anger, Hindrances, Ego
Jun 19 2014
2

Zazen Refresher

Posture, Emotions, Passions, Practice Period, Instruction, Interview, Happiness, Evil...
Jun 06 2014

Heart Sutra Class

Anger, Impermanence, Karma, Composure, Passions, Pure Existence, Birth-and-Death,...
May 29 2014
3

Heart Sutra Class

Birth-and-Death, Anger, Karma, Evil, Nirvana, Emotions, Renunciation, Attachment,...
May 22 2014
2

Five Hindrances

Hindrances, Anger, Doubt, Forgiveness, Continuous, Addiction, Attachment, Sixth...
Mar 29 2014

Exploring Consciousness and Realizing Wisdom

Exploring consciousness with the aid of Buddha's teachings is a path to discovering and realizing deep, liberating Wisdom. Consciousness may be experienced as confining and confusing; at the same...

Consciousness, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, true dharma, Anger, unconscious process,...
Mar 22 2014
2
No Abode Hermitage

Dogen's Zenki: Undivided Activity

Birth-and-Death, Anger, Continuous, Lotus Sutra, Don't Know Mind, Discrimination...
Feb 22 2014

Suffering and Faith

Anger, Death-and-Dying, Four Noble Truths, Practice Position, Duality, Don't...
Feb 15 2014

An Experience of Feeling Wrong

Anger, War, Peace, Evil, Conversation, Culture, Passions, Continuous, Hate, American...
Jan 31 2014

Think not Thinking

Serial: BZ-02342

Rohatsu

Forgiveness, Forgiveness, Emotions, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Greed, Happiness,...
Dec 06 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Forgiveness

Serial: BZ-02340

Rohatsu

Forgiveness, Anger, Forgiveness, Emotions, Anger, American, Attachment, Transmission...
Dec 04 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Brain Washing 1,7,3,5

Serial: BZ-02339

Rohatsu

Dogen, Tenzo Kyokun, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Daily Life, Hate, Dragons,...
Dec 03 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice in the gate and outside

Serial: BZ-02334

Saturday Lecture

Emotions, Emotions, Anger, Dependent Origination, Addiction, Subject-and-Object, Ego...
Nov 09 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Hozan Senauke Dogens Vow 4

Repentance, Dharma Transmission, Discrimination, Transmission, Mindfulness, true...
Sep 01 2013

Sesshin Day 4

American, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period, Karma, Ordination, Equanimity,...
Jun 22 2013

On The Bodhisattva Ceremony

Serial: BZ-02309

Karma, Saturday Lecture

Katagiri Roshi, Karma, Confession-and-Repentance, Precepts, Repentance, Karma, Peace...
May 25 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai-Branching-Streams-Lecture-Six-Part-Two

Serial: BZ-02294

Sandokai, Sesshin Day 2

Suzuki Roshi, Sekito Kisen, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Funeral, American,...
Feb 17 2013
Part 4 of 4
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai Lecture Two

Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Happiness, Anger, Oneness, Separation, Composure,...
Feb 16 2013

The Dharma of Martin Luther King

Non-violence, Liberation, Interdependence, Global Warming, Anger, Hate, Buddha Nature...
Jan 12 2013

Sandokai Lecture Four

Serial: BZ-02281

Couplet 5, Rohatsu Day 4

Bell, Practice Position, Discrimination, Practice Period, Chanting, Subject-and-...
Dec 05 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Including the Self

Ego, Practice Period, Aspects of Practice, Big Mind, Family Practice, Silence, Anger...
Nov 03 2012

Buddhas and Sentient Beings

Silence, Evil, Buddha Nature, Book of Serenity, Five Ranks, Bodhisattva Ceremony,...
Oct 06 2012

Poems of Miaza Never Despise

Lotus Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Transmission, uchiyama, Beginners, Separation,...
Aug 04 2012

2012.07.30-serial.00141

Four Noble Truths, Anger, Vows, Subject-and-Object, Samsara, Dependent Origination,...
Jul 30 2012

The Question of Love

Serial: BZ-02243

Zen Lesson in the Art of Leadership, Saturday Lecture

Partiality and Impartiality

 

Lovingkindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, Equanimity, Attachment, Big Mind,...
May 26 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Kshanti Or Patience And Our Practice

Patience, Conversation, Bodhisattva Vow, Enemies, Buddha's Birthday, Anger,...
Apr 21 2012

The Seeds and Fruits of True Awakening 

Oneness, Precepts, Anger, Duality, Samadhi
Apr 19 2012
The Yoga Room

No Gaining Mind Amidst Undulations

Serial: BZ-02228

Big Mind and Shikantaza, Saturday Lecture

Nirvana, Time, Letting Go, Teacher-and-Student, Gaining Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...
Feb 04 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Occupy the Dharma

Culture, Liberation, Precepts, American, Patience, confusion, Separation, Non-...
Nov 19 2011

We Are All Buddhas

Lotus Sutra, Anger, Aspects of Practice, Daily Life, Culture, Observe, Conversation,...
Nov 12 2011

Seijiki and Halloween

Serial: BZ-02211

Feeding the Hungry Ghosts, Saturday Lecture

Hungry Ghosts, Seijiki, Demons, Current Events, Evil, Culture, Religion, Practice...
Oct 29 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Becoming A Priest

Priest, Vows, Aspects of Practice, Ordination, training, Anger, Lay Practice, Lay,...
Aug 27 2011

Study of delusion is the Buddha Way 

Anger, Commitment, Bell, Money
Aug 13 2011
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Anything Is Possible

Repentance, Buddha Nature, Anger, Humility, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Ordinary Mind,...
Aug 13 2011

Precepts

Serial: BZ-02176

Bodhisattva Ceremony, Saturday Lecture

Karma, Precepts, Karma, Anger, Vows, Four Noble Truths, Bodhisattva Precepts,...
May 14 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

The Dharma and Non-violent Action in Burma

Berkeley Zen Center, training, Anger, Interview, War, Peace, Emotions, Evil, Non-...
Apr 23 2011

Teshan and Lung Tan

Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Ordinary Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...
Mar 12 2011

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