Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2017-10-25)

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2017-10-25) - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention to the unmet needs that underlie angry reactivity. When we learn how to pause and connect honestly with our inner experience, we are then able to respond to others from our full intelligence and heart.

"Getting angry with another person is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned.” Buddha

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:06.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.3	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:26.6	Namaste and welcome.
0:29.4	This night's class is on mindfulness of anger and working with anger.
0:36.4	And I don't know if anyone here, if you want to leave now, if it's not relevant, then go ahead.
0:43.3	I saw a cartoon of a bunch of monks on the DC mall and some of them had their hands and
0:49.0	fists and the leaders with the megaphone saying, what do we want?
0:53.6	Mindfulness.
0:54.6	When do we want it?
0:55.6	Now.
0:56.6	Universal.
0:59.4	So we look at anger with the understanding of it's part of all of our wiring that it's
1:07.3	absolutely essential for our survival and our flourishing.
1:11.3	It's an intelligent emotion and it can be incredibly destructive when we get hijacked,
1:18.8	when it takes over.
1:21.2	And so the critical inquiry that we'll explore together really is how do we shift from reacting
1:28.3	out of anger to responding wisely to whatever the message is.
1:35.1	Because this is the trajectory of evolving consciousness that we make that shift from
1:42.1	reactivity when only part of our brains in control of the limbic system to a response
1:48.6	that includes all of our brain and wisdom and heart.
1:53.5	And we start with a parable that I shared a year or two ago that I love.
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