
Trike Daily Personal Reflections
Raging Buddha
How my anger led me to insight
How my anger led me to insight
A practitioner reflects on her knee-jerk reaction to the disgraced comedian’s guilty verdict.
Anger can clarify and energize our commitment to social change.
If you are ready when defilements arise, the lesson will come.
Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei is the author of the article “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger” in the Summer 2012 issue of Tricycle. A dharma heir of Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Shuzen is a priest in the Soto Zen tradition, a member of the White Plum Asangha, the Zen Peacemakers Order, and the American Zen Teachers […]
Today we have a guest post from Leonard Scheff, co-author with Susan Edmiston of the book The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger. Read about his views on dealing with anger and then let us know: What do you think of the assertion that “being angry at an event is […]
The following guest post comes to us courtesy of author Susan Edmiston. When I recently came across the formulation of the Ninth Precept as “Not Being Angry,” I was puzzled. As a longtime Soto Zen practitioner and co-author of a book on anger, I had always been familiar with the precept as, “A disciple of […]