The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Here we go. Great, Awesome. So hello and welcome to Appia everyone. Lovely to be with you.

Ah, very sweet. Warms my heart. So for today's practice I wanted to speak just a couple minutes before our meditation about

skillful and heartful ways to work with being upset or being angry.

Anybody ever gets upset or angry at anything in the world?

Yeah, right?

Other people, yourself?

Yeah.

Yep, yeah, absolutely.

It's part of the human emotions that we have. It's so, so one thing to consider about, I'll just call it anger and this is a short form for different gradations right there

could be you might just be irked or feeling kind of awkward like or you or anger, or it could also more well defined, or it could also get into resentment.

So slightly different variations. Resentiment is when it's been going on for a while, right?

Going on for a while you've been feeding it and just the mind is in resentment space.

Erk is kind of like erkk.

I can maybe let it go, maybe not.

It's like, ah, feeling a little erkkkt.

And anger is somewhere in the middle, right? So there, and lots of other. and

lots of other ranges of emotion in between.

One thing to consider is anger in the middle or being irked, one or you know these two on the lower end of what

were the scale I'm laying out. There is some information in it.

You know, it's not helpful when it becomes resentment and it's really old and we've been feeding it and over and over,

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