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Anger Talks

Anger, also known as wrath (UK: ROTH; US: RATH) 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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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

Serial: BZ-02013

Part 1 of 2, teaching retreat

Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, resistance, Transmission, Evil...
Jan 24 2009
1
Berkeley Zen Center

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 6th Ancestor, Hui Neng

Serial: BZ-01450

Rohatsu Day 4

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

Current Heightened Awareness of Fear 

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

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

Serial: BZ-01159

Saturday talk

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enemies, Building, Anger, Impermanence, Practice...
Sep 20 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

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

Saving the Sentient Beings of our own Mind: Zen and Psychology

Serial: BZ-01151

Saturday Lecture

Dependent Origination, Emotions, Vow, Demons, Conversation, Bodhisattva Vow, Anger,...
Aug 09 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

June 28th, 2008, Serial No. 01144

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

Zen Koans: Elevating Conscious Awareness

Serial: RB-01800

Winterbranches_7

Koan, Anger, Consciousness
Jun 2008
Johanneshof

May 25th, 2008, Serial No. 03573

Anger, Buddha Mind, Nirvana
May 25 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, Vow, Precepts, Culture, Anger, Forgiveness,...
Mar 15 2008

Kindness, Difficulty, and Illumination

Serial: BZ-01102B

Rohatsu Day 4

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

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

Paramita of Patience, Kshanti: Not Repressing, Not Acting Out

Serial: BZ-01096

One Day Sitting

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

November 11th, 2007, Serial No. 03489

Anger, Vow, Precepts
Nov 11 2007

Embodying the Paramitas

Serial: BZ-01006

Saturday Lecture

Right Effort, Concentration, Aspects of Practice, Patience, Anger, Bodhisattva...
Oct 27 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

“Menju” (Face to Face Transmission): From Moon in a Dew Drop, Writings of Zen Master Dogen

Serial: BZ-00998B

Saturday Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Bodhidharma, true...
Sep 08 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00994B

Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Ego, Monastic Practice, Concentration, Anger, Blue Cliff Record,...
Sep 02 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindful Unity: Integrating Mind and Body

Serial: RB-01660F

Seminar_The_Four_Foundations_of_Mindfulness

Practice, Anger, Time
Sep 2007
Hannover

Responding with Openness to Love and Hate

Serial: BZ-01445

And Other Opposites, Saturday Lecture

Love, Hate, Composure, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Precepts, Equanimity,...
Jun 30 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Gracious Attention to Stories 

Observe, Posture, Right Speech, Anger, War
May 27 2007
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-01062

Story of Parvati and ...(?); falling in love - never alone; the entire universe in ten directions is the true human body; Coming of Age Program; samsara/dukkha; parenting a...

Parvati, Karma, Dukkha, Samsara, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Continuous Practice, Hate,...
May 20 2007
Green Gulch Farm

April 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01260

Practice Period, Priest, Lay, Monastic Practice, Karma, Gratitude, Ordination,...
Apr 17 2007

March 29th, 2007, Serial No. 03418

Anger, Mindfulness, Four Foundations
Mar 29 2007

March 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01425

Demons, Happiness, Daily Life, Anger, Priest, Greed, Passions, Evil, Conversation,...
Mar 17 2007

February 25th, 2007, Serial No. 03412

Karma, Anger, Attachment
Feb 25 2007

Gratitude for Adversity

Serial: BZ-01400B

The Nun and the Stars, Saturday Lecture

Gratitude, Composure, Non-duality, Hate, Enemies, Continuous Practice, War, Anger...
Nov 25 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

November 10th, 2006, Serial No. 03367

Anger, Patience, Study
Nov 10 2006

Sexuality and Intoxication

Serial: BZ-01396

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Chanting, Aspects of Practice, Bodhisattva Precepts, Karma, Anger,...
Nov 04 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Aspects of Practice: Giving/Non-Stinginess, 8th Precept

Serial: BZ-01048

Class 2 of 4

Precepts, Offering, Mindfulness, Bodhisattva Precepts, Buddha Ancestors, Anger,...
Nov 02 2006
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John King

Serial: BZ-01178

Saturday Lecture

Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,...
Aug 12 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

The Paramita of Forebearance

Serial: BZ-01176B

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Anger, Forgiveness, Precepts, Practice Period, Patience, Hate, Karma,...
Jul 29 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

State of the World Address: Causes and Excuses

Serial: BZ-01175

Power: Manipulation Through Maintaining Chaos, Saturday Lecture

Politics, Religion, War, Peace, Evil, Emotions, Anger, Attachment, Forgiveness,...
Jul 22 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Suffering: How We Create It

Serial: BZ-01171

The Meaning of Forgiveness and How We Free Ourselves, Saturday Lecture

Suffering, Forgiveness, Forgiveness, Anger, Emotions, Hate, War, training,...
Jun 24 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Chain of Dependant Co-arising; Mahayana View of Cessation

Serial: BZ-01044A

Class 5 of 5

Birth-and-Death, Passions, Karma, Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Hindrances, Daily Life...
Jun 08 2006
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record #90: Her Koan — Chih Men’s Body of Wisdom

Serial: BZ-01238

Saturday Lecture

Blue Cliff Record, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, Funeral, Practice Period, Commitment,...
Jun 05 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Non-Duality, Emptiness, Leaving No Trace

Serial: BZ-01043A

Class 4 of 5

Subject-and-Object, Passions, Skandas, Anger, confusion, Non-duality, Greed, Birth-...
Jun 01 2006
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Worldly Life and Pure Practice

Serial: BZ-01237

Kid Zendo: Circles, Saturday Lecture

Daily Life, Practice, Birth-and-Death, Precepts, Daily Life, Interview, Greed, Doubt...
May 27 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

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