Product Description

The Dalai Lama teaches with clear and forceful language. These teachings form an essential spiritual discourse.--Publishers Weekly

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25252 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

From Library Journal
Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama discusses the subject of patience, drawing on a chapter from an important Buddhist classic, Shantideva's "Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life." He helps readers examine how anger arises to destroy much that is positive and good, proposing that gentleness is fundamental to human nature. Through active self-discipline, and not meekness as is commonly misunderstood, we can transform anger through compassion and to be reconciled with ourselves and others. Recommended for public libraries.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
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
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
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"!