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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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I Love Zazen and Zazen Loves Me Mindfulness, Anger, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Manjushri, Karma, Ego, Concentration,... |
Sep 25 2010 |
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Birth and Death Birth-and-Death, Anger, Duality, Forgiveness, Impermanence, Concentration, Culture,... |
Apr 24 2010 |
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Taking Refuge Attachment, Buddha Mind, Sangha, Hate, Soto Zen, Anger, Fox, Demons, Impermanence... |
Mar 13 2010 |
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Vashubandu ClassSerial: BZ-02084 Class 4 of 4 Subject-and-Object, Anger, Diversity, Discrimination, Building, Addiction, Ego,... |
Feb 15 2010 4 |
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Vashubandu ClassSerial: BZ-02082 Class 1 of 4 Anger, Doubt, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Religion, Subject-and-Object, Nirvana, Daily Life... |
Feb 14 2010 1 |
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Practice Not Practicing Right Effort, Evil, Anger, Cultivation, confusion, Precepts, Instruction, Doubt,... |
Feb 06 2010 |
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Commemorating Buddha's EnlightenmentSerial: 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 |
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Beyond Dharma and DharmasSerial: BZ-02071 Poem on Rohatsu, Rohatsu Day 4 Abhidharma, Five Skandhas, Big Mind, Discrimination, Karma, Concentration, Don't... |
Dec 09 2009 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Seven Factors of RealizationSerial: BZ-02069 Mindfulness, Rohatsu Day 2 Tozan, Guishan, Yunyan, Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Bell, Subject-and-Object,... |
Dec 07 2009 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Landscape of the Self Attachment, Non-attachment, Ego, Anger, Hate, Composure, Patience, Bowing, Hindrances... |
Aug 29 2009 |
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness Mindfulness, Posture, Hindrances, Anger, Priest, Concentration, Subject-and-Object,... |
Aug 08 2009 |
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Zazen is the true reference pointSerial: BZ-02047 Put your behind on the cushion, Saturday Lecture Drama of life, Thoughts = dream world
Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Instruction, Precepts, Interview, confusion, Duality, Posture,... |
Jun 27 2009 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Class 3 And There Was Light Obstacles, Anger, Happiness, Instruction, Gratitude, Passions, Continuous Practice,... |
May 28 2009 |
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More Light Ordinary Mind, Light-and-Darkness, Darkness and Light, Transmission, Practice Period... |
May 23 2009 |
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Five Hindrances - Especially Restlessness Concentration, Hindrances, Forgiveness, Anger, Don't Know Mind, Avalokiteshvara... |
Apr 11 2009 |
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Zen Compassion Passions, Emotions, Anger, Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Five Ranks, Hate,... |
Mar 07 2009 |
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Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly DreamsSerial: BZ-02013 Part 1 of 2, teaching retreat Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, Transmission, Evil, Precepts... |
Jan 24 2009 1 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Platform Sutra of Hui Neng: Serial No. 01080Serial: BZ-01080 Rohatsu Day 4, side B Samadhi, Mahayana, Big Mind, Ego, Posture, Anger, Demons, American, Building, Peace... |
Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor, Hui NengSerial: BZ-01450 Rohatsu Day 4 Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Posture, Ego, Anger, Passions, confusion, American,... |
Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui NengSerial: BZ-02007 Rohatsu Day 4 Hui Neng, Posture, Ego, Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Passions, American, Peace,... |
Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui NengSerial: BZ-02006 Rohatsu Day 3 Hui Neng, Don't Know Mind, Birth-and-Death, Instruction, Liberation, Evil, Big... |
Dec 09 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zen Mind, Beginners Mind Posture, Big Mind, Practice Period, Composure, Anger, Ego, Discrimination,... |
Nov 15 2008 |
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Dizang's Weakness: Case 20, Book of Serenity; Serial No. 01162Serial: BZ-01162 Saturday talk Koan, Dizang, SER-20, Intimacy, Gratitude, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra, Nirvana... |
Oct 04 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Being with the conditions we find ourselves in: Meeting the Tassajara fire: Serial No. 01159Serial: BZ-01159 Saturday talk Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enemies, Building, Anger, Impermanence, Practice... |
Sep 20 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-ArisingSerial: 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 |
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Fath of DelusionSerial: 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 |
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Saving the Sentient Beings of our own Mind: Zen and PsychologySerial: BZ-01151 Saturday Lecture Dependent Origination, Emotions, Vow, Demons, Conversation, Anger, Four Noble Truths... |
Aug 09 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Self and Sutras, Dogen; Self Beyond You and Me, Just Being YouSerial: BZ-01144 Saturday lecture Discrimination, Practice Period, Anger, Non-discrimination, Funeral, Enemies,... |
Jun 28 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record Case #87, Right Medicine, Right Teacher: Unmon’s “Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other”Serial: BZ-01135 Saturday lecture Practice Period, Manjushri, Attachment, Blue Cliff Record, Separation, Instruction,... |
May 24 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Shuso Talk: Way Seeking Mind Part IISerial: BZ-01132 First Friday talk Karma, Forgiveness, Interview, Hindrances, Family Practice, Light-and-Darkness, Anger... |
May 16 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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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 |
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Spring: Two Sides and EphemeralSerial: BZ-01123 Saturday Lecture Sanctuary, Impermanence, Death-and-Dying, Book of Serenity, Renewal, Anger, Ego,... |
Mar 29 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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“The Dog’s Tooth” a Relic Story (Kid zendo): Alchemy and Transformation, Distinguishing Base and PreciousSerial: BZ-01120 Saturday lecture Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Vow, Precepts, Culture, Anger, Forgiveness,... |
Mar 15 2008 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Kindness, Difficulty, and IlluminationSerial: BZ-01102B Rohatsu Day 4 Samadhi, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Hindrances, Evil, Nirvana, Hate, Building, War... |
Dec 05 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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True Humility and Buddha's PracticeSerial: 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 |
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Paramita of Patience, Kshanti: Not Repressing, Not Acting OutSerial: BZ-01096 One Day Sitting Patience, Mindfulness, Anger, Right Speech, Emotions, Practice Period, Non-violence,... |
Nov 17 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Embodying the ParamitasSerial: BZ-01006 Saturday Lecture Right Effort, Concentration, Patience, Anger, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Precepts,... |
Oct 27 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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“Menju” (Face to Face Transmission): From Moon in a Dew Drop, Writings of Zen Master DogenSerial: BZ-00998B Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Bodhidharma, Dharma... |
Sep 08 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Tenzo KyokunSerial: 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 |
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Responding with Openness to Love and HateSerial: BZ-01445 And Other Opposites, Saturday Lecture Love, Hate, Composure, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Precepts, Equanimity,... |
Jun 30 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Our Approach to Practice PeriodSerial: BZ-01260 Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Priest, Lay, Monastic Practice, Karma, Gratitude, Ordination,... |
Apr 17 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Contemplation in Action, Leaving the Zendo: What do You do? Everything is to Build CompassionSerial: BZ-01425 Saturday Lecture Demons, Happiness, Daily Life, Anger, Priest, Greed, Passions, Evil, Conversation,... |
Mar 17 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Gratitude for AdversitySerial: 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 |
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Sexuality and IntoxicationSerial: BZ-01396 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Chanting, Bodhisattva Precepts, Karma, Anger, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Priest... |
Nov 04 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Aspects of Practice: Giving/Non-Stinginess, 8th PreceptSerial: BZ-01048 Class 2 of 4 Precepts, Offering, Mindfulness, Bodhisattva Precepts, Buddha Ancestors, Anger,... |
Nov 02 2006 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John KingSerial: BZ-01178 Saturday Lecture Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,... |
Aug 12 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Paramita of ForebearanceSerial: BZ-01176B Saturday Lecture Heart Sutra, Anger, Forgiveness, Precepts, Practice Period, Patience, Hate, Karma,... |
Jul 29 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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State of the World Address: Causes and ExcusesSerial: BZ-01175 Power: Manipulation Through Maintaining Chaos, Saturday Lecture Politics, Religion, War, Peace, Evil, Emotions, Anger, Attachment, Forgiveness,... |
Jul 22 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Suffering: How We Create ItSerial: BZ-01171 The Meaning of Forgiveness and How We Free Ourselves, Saturday Lecture Suffering, Forgiveness, Forgiveness, Anger, Emotions, Hate, War, Renunciation,... |
Jun 24 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Heart Sutra: Chain of Dependant Co-arising; Mahayana View of CessationSerial: 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 |