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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Metta Kindness

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

Genjo Koan

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

Going Beyond Teachers and Ourselves

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

Receiving With Gratitude

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

Mindfulness

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

Sattipathana Sutta

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

The Simile of the Saw

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

I Love Zazen and Zazen Loves Me

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

2010.08.09-serial.00129

Silence, Anger
Aug 09 2010

Birth and Death

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

Training for the Selfless Heart 

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

Training for the Selfless Heart 

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

Taking Refuge

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

Vashubandu Class

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

Vashubandu Class

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

Practice Not Practicing

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

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

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

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

The Landscape of the Self

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

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

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

The Ultimate Transcends Difference and Unity

Samdhinirmochana Mahayana Sutra Chapter 3, part 2
Samdhinirmochana Sutra (Part VIII),
Chapter Three, Morning
No Abode 7/23//09 AM

Samsara, Desire, Anger, Separation
Jul 18 2009
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

2009.07.05-serial.00204

Precepts, Greed, Daily Life, Subject-and-Object, Anger, Dharma Transmission,...
Jul 05 2009

2009.07.03-serial.00202

Repentance, Precepts, Sangha, Posture, Hindrances, Anger, Subject-and-Object,...
Jul 03 2009

Zazen is the true reference point

Serial: BZ-02047

Put your behind on the cushion, Saturday Lecture

Drama of life, Thoughts = dream world

 

Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Instruction, resistance, Precepts, Interview, confusion,...
Jun 27 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Class 3 And There Was Light

Obstacles, Echo, Anger, Happiness, Instruction, Gratitude, resistance, Passions,...
May 28 2009

More Light

Ordinary Mind, Light-and-Darkness, Darkness and Light, Bodhisattva Vow, Transmission...
May 23 2009

Five Hindrances - Especially Restlessness

Concentration, Hindrances, Forgiveness, Anger, Don't Know Mind, Avalokiteshvara...
Apr 11 2009

Zen Compassion

Passions, Emotions, Anger, Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Five Ranks, Hate,...
Mar 07 2009

Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams

Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, resistance, Transmission,...
Jan 24 2009

Platform Sutra of Hui Neng: Serial No. 01080

Serial: BZ-01080

Rohatsu Day 4, side B

Samadhi, Mahayana, Big Mind, Ego, Posture, Anger, Demons, American, Building, Peace...
Dec 10 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra of Hui Neng: Serial No. 01450

Serial: BZ-01450

Rohatsu Day 4, Side A

Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Posture, Ego, Anger, Passions, confusion, American,...
Dec 10 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng

Serial: BZ-02007

Rohatsu Day 4

Hui Neng, Posture, Ego, Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Passions, American, Peace,...
Dec 10 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng

Serial: BZ-02006

Rohatsu Day 3

Hui Neng, Don't Know Mind, Birth-and-Death, training, Instruction, Liberation,...
Dec 09 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

Aspects of Practice, Posture, Big Mind, Practice Period, Composure, Anger, Ego,...
Nov 15 2008

Dizang's Weakness: Case 20, Book of Serenity; Serial No. 01162

Serial: BZ-01162

Saturday talk

Koan, Dizang, SER-20, Intimacy, Gratitude, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra, Nirvana...
Oct 04 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Being with the conditions we find ourselves in: Meeting the Tassajara fire: Serial No. 01159

Serial: BZ-01159

Saturday talk

Tassajara, Enemies, Building, Anger, Impermanence, Practice Period, Buddha Nature,...
Sep 20 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Current Heightened Awareness of Fear 

Money, Gratitude, War, Samadhi, Anger
Sep 20 2008
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising

Serial: BZ-01155A

Pratitya Samutpada, Teaching Retreat

Anger, Greed, Karma, Renunciation, Ego, Hindrances, Mindfulness, Emotions, Skandas,...
Aug 31 2008
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Fath of Delusion

Serial: BZ-01154A

Teaching Retreat

Birth-and-Death, Mindfulness, Attachment, Buddha Mind, Karma, Four Noble Truths,...
Aug 30 2008
Part 2 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

August 9th, 2008, Serial No. 01151

Dependent Origination, Emotions, Vows, Demons, Conversation, Bodhisattva Vow, Anger,...
Aug 09 2008

June 28th, 2008, Serial No. 01144

Discrimination, Practice Period, Anger, Non-discrimination, Funeral, Enemies,...
Jun 28 2008

May 24th, 2008, Serial No. 01135

Practice Period, Manjushri, Attachment, Blue Cliff Record, Separation, Instruction,...
May 24 2008

May 16th, 2008, Serial No. 01132

Karma, Forgiveness, Interview, Hindrances, Family Practice, Light-and-Darkness, Anger...
May 16 2008

Zazen in Practice Period:

Serial: BZ-01129

Posture, Breath, Mind, One-Day Sitting

Posture, Discrimination, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object, confusion, Duality,...
May 04 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

March 29th, 2008, Serial No. 01123

Sanctuary, Impermanence, Death-and-Dying, Book of Serenity, Renewal, Anger, Ego,...
Mar 29 2008

March 15th, 2008, Serial No. 01120

Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Vows, Precepts, Culture, Anger, Forgiveness,...
Mar 15 2008

December 5th, 2007, Serial No. 01102, Side B

Samadhi, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Hindrances, Evil, Nirvana, Hate, Building, War...
Dec 05 2007

True Humility and Buddha's Practice

Serial: BZ-01101

Bare Attention and Not Anticipating, Rohatsu Day 3

Practice, Shikantaza, Humility, Buddha Mind, Hindrances, Don't Know Mind, Anger...
Dec 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

November 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01096

Patience, Mindfulness, training, Anger, Right Speech, Emotions, Aspects of Practice,...
Nov 17 2007

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