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Summary: Read this book, it may change your life
Comment: Healthy approach on how to deal with anger in everyday life. This book really made a difference for me when dealing with a select few individuals. Taking a look at yourself and others from the Dahli Lama's perspective, really helped me elimninate anger. The only reason I am not giving this 5 stars is because there is a lot of information about the Buddhist practice. I didn't mind reading the Buddhist info, but did not purchase it for that reason. With that said; I found the entire book interesting (even the Buddhist info.)and would certainly buy the book again and strongly suggest it if you are looking to understand and deal with anger in a healthier way.
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Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Shantideva's analysis of anger and methods to increase patience is brilliant and Dalai Lama's commentary on Shantideva is lucid. Whenever I am angry I try to remember the teachings of the book and I find that the anger just evaporates. Unlike the Bible which says that one must be patient, not be jealous, angry etc, this book gives many disadvantages to anger as well as the advantages of patience so that one doesn't just accept certain qualities as virtues or vice blindly. Instead one finds practical reasons to cultivate or discourage certain qualities in oneself. Being a book based on Buddhist principles, you will find reasons based on the theory of reincarnation too. One can either take into account these reasons or not, based on one's acceptance of karma. The most powerful tool for understanding and not being affected by negative emotons is the the theory of dependent origination which states that we and the people we interact with are all interdependent on each other and have a history of reacting to each other even over lifetimes. This gives me great solace and patience when I find it perplexing to understand why someone is being so negative towards me for I can then say that perhaps I behaved badly with them in another lifetiime. It is very liberating.
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Summary: Meditate don't medicate
Comment: The information is soothing. What is odd however is all the people searching for "something" they will never find. It really does just boil down to being a good person.
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Summary: To much terminology
Comment: To my opinion the second part of the book it goes too deep into Buddhist terminology and into theories beyond the apprehension of a western reader.
The theory of emptiness and complicated issues of high level Buddhist philosophy shouldn't have been a part of a book with the title "healing anger"!
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: Snow Lion Publications is a landmark when it comes to Buddhist literature, up there with Wisdom Books and Shambhala Publications. The Dalai Lama faces the issues of our times in this book; for we live in times of so much violence and anger in various situations, not just "global." We encounter them in our family life, in our work life, et cetera. Everywhere we go, this matter seems to pop right up! As you might expect, the practice out of this the Dalai Lama prescribes is the cultivation of compassion; cultivating patience. Patience, His Holiness points out, permits us to mindfully and calmly accept hardship, thus enabling us to see things as they are unclouded.In here you find an old text from the 11th century which is quite important to Tibet known as the "Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" by Shantideva. The Dalai Lama uses this text as his entire groundwork for explaining the practice and place of patience in our lives, if of course, we are aspiring and actualizing our life as a bodhisattva. Also a good book on this subject is "Anger: Wisdom For Cooling the Flames." Sure the books are dissimilar in style and format, while simultaneously they drive towards the same end point; realizing our life as a bodhisattva. Get this book right away, it's a must have!
