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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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Posture, Hindrances, Anger, Priest, Concentration, Subject-and-Object,...
Aug 08 2009

The Landscape of the Self

Attachment, Non-attachment, Ego, Anger, Hate, Composure, Patience, Bowing, resistance...
Aug 29 2009

The Seven Factors of Realization

Serial: BZ-02069

Mindfulness, Rohatsu Day 2

Tozan, Guishan, Yunyen, Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Bell, Subject-and-Object,...
Dec 07 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Beyond Dharma and Dharmas

Serial: BZ-02071

Poem on Rohatsu, Rohatsu Day 4

Abhidharma, Five Skandhas, Big Mind, Discrimination, Karma, Concentration, Describe,...
Dec 09 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Commemorating Buddha's Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-02074

Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 7

Abhidharma, Genjokoan, Vasubandhu, Ego, Birth-and-Death, Five Ranks, Anger, Nirvana,...
Dec 12 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice Not Practicing

Right Effort, Evil, Anger, Cultivation, confusion, Precepts, Instruction, Doubt,...
Feb 06 2010

Vashubandu Class

Anger, Doubt, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Religion, Subject-and-Object, Nirvana, Daily Life...
Feb 14 2010
1

Vashubandu Class

Subject-and-Object, Anger, Diversity, Discrimination, Building, Addiction, Ego,...
Feb 15 2010
4

Taking Refuge

Attachment, Buddha Mind, Sangha, Hate, Soto Zen, Anger, Fox, Demons, Impermanence,...
Mar 13 2010

Training for the Selfless Heart 

Desire, Anger, Posture, Attachment, Tassajara
Mar 25 2010
The Yoga Room

Training for the Selfless Heart 

Practice Period, Intimacy, Hate, Anger, Posture
Apr 01 2010
The Yoga Room

Birth and Death

Birth-and-Death, Anger, Duality, Forgiveness, Impermanence, Concentration, Culture,...
Apr 24 2010

2010.08.09-serial.00129

Silence, Anger
Aug 09 2010

I Love Zazen and Zazen Loves Me

Mindfulness, Anger, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Manjushri, Karma, Ego, Concentration,...
Sep 25 2010

The Simile of the Saw

Evil, Anger, Aspects of Practice, Practice Period, Instruction, Hate, Precepts, Ego,...
Oct 23 2010

Sattipathana Sutta

Emotions, Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Passions, Anger, Intimacy, Daily Life,...
Oct 28 2010

Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Hindrances, Anger, Four Noble Truths, Daily Life, Four Foundations,...
Nov 04 2010

Receiving With Gratitude

Practice Period, Intimacy, Lotus Sutra, Gratitude, Tassajara, Anger, Patience,...
Nov 20 2010

Going Beyond Teachers and Ourselves

Half-Smile, Study Period, resistance, Instruction, Patience, Practice Period, Hate,...
Jan 22 2011

Genjo Koan

Lotus Sutra, Transmission, Fundraising, Anger, Enemies, Happiness, Separation,...
Feb 12 2011

Metta Kindness

Happiness, Anger, Cultivation, Equanimity, resistance, Concentration, Daily Life,...
Feb 26 2011

Teshan and Lung Tan

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

The Dharma and Non-violent Action in Burma

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

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

Becoming A Priest

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

We Are All Buddhas

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

Occupy the Dharma

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

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

The Seeds and Fruits of True Awakening 

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

Kshanti Or Patience And Our Practice

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

2012.07.30-serial.00141

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

Poems of Miaza Never Despise

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

Buddhas and Sentient Beings

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

Including the Self

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

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

The Dharma of Martin Luther King

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

Sandokai Lecture Two

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

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

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

Sesshin Day 4

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

Hozan Senauke Dogens Vow 4

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

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

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

Forgiveness

Serial: BZ-02340

Rohatsu

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

Think not Thinking

Serial: BZ-02342

Rohatsu

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

An Experience of Feeling Wrong

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

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