Unravelling the Hidden Causes of Anger, Part II

Is anger ever righteous? Has anger ever given you the happiness and protection that you want? In Buddhism, painful emotions such as anger are known as ‘delusions.’ They are called this precisely because they are delusional ways of seeing the world and distort our experiences. Delusions such as anger are completely unreliable states of mind, guaranteed to create unhappiness for ourselves and others.

In this series we look at the third of the six perfections, the perfection of patient acceptance. Through this training we learn to relate to our unhappiness, anger in an open, creative way. This training gives us the skill to transform our unhealthy and painful emotions into the very minds of acceptance, kindness and love that will solve our problems.