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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Suzuki Roshi Eko Lectures: 8 Dhyana Jhana

Serial: BZ-02451

 Rohatsu Day 4

 

Passions, 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

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 Practice, Renunciation, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Buddha Nature,...
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, Anger, Harmonizing, Bell, Mindfulness...
Dec 04 2014

The Widow's Son

Karma, confusion, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 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 Practice, Addiction, Attachment,...
Mar 29 2014

Dogen's Zenki: Undivided Activity

Birth-and-Death, Anger, Continuous Practice, Lotus Sutra, Don't Know Mind,...
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 Practice, Hate,...
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

Dogens Vow

Serial: BZ-02327

Part 4 of 4

Repentance, Dharma Transmission, Discrimination, Transmission, Mindfulness, true...
Sep 01 2013
4

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

part 4 of 4

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

Sandokai Lecture Two

Serial: BZ-02293

Part 2 of 4

Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Happiness, Anger, Oneness, Separation, Composure,...
Feb 16 2013
2

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

Serial: BZ-02256

Part 1 of 2

Lotus Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Transmission, uchiyama, Beginners, Separation,...
Aug 04 2012
1

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

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, Conversation, Hate,...
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, Vow, Aspects of Practice, Ordination, training, Anger, Lay Practice, Lay,...
Aug 27 2011

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, Vow, 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

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 Zen Mountain Center,...
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

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