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Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective | 
 enlarge | Author: The Dalai Lama
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 27687
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1559390735
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.35
EAN: 9781559390736
ASIN: 1559390735
Publication Date: March 25, 1997
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The Dalai Lama teaches with clear and forceful language. These teachings form an essential spiritual discourse.--Publishers Weekly
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 Brilliant November 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Meditate don't medicate May 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 To much terminology October 1, 2005
9 out of 33 found this review helpful
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"!
Excellent March 5, 2004
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
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!
Logical and needed in today's world July 16, 2003
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
This book is essential reading for those like myself who have difficulty restraining their anger. Reading this book has allowed me to understand the causes that lead to anger and ultimately, to suffering. At it's deepest level, Healing Anger is about how to get oneself on the road to the cessation from suffering by changing one's outlook on the world and on oneself.
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