A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

Imagine you're circling a crowded parking lot. Just as you spot a space, another
driver races ahead and takes it. In a world of road rage, domestic violence, and
professionally angry TV and radio commentators, your likely response is anger,
even fury. Now imagine that instead of another driver, a cow has lumbered into
that parking space and settled down. Your anger dissolves into bemusement. What
has changed? Not just the occupant of the space but your perspective on the
situation.

We're a society swimming in anger, always about to snap. Using simple,
understandable Buddhist principles, Scheff and Edmiston explain how to replace
anger with happiness. They introduce the four most common types of anger (Important
and Reasonable, Reasonable but Unimportant, Irrational, and Impossible), then show
how to identify our real unmet demands, dissolve our anger, and change what happens
when our buttons are pushed. We learn to laugh at ourselves, a powerful early step,
and realize that others don't make us angry. Only we can make ourselves angry.

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