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Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective
by The Dalai Lama
from Snow Lion Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Read this book, it may change your life
  Healthy approach on how to deal with anger in everyday life. This book really made a difference for me when dealing with a select few individuals. Taking a look at yourself and others from the Dahli Lama's perspective, really helped me elimninate anger. The only reason I am not giving this 5 stars is because there is a lot of information about the Buddhist practice. I didn't mind reading the Buddhist info, but did not purchase it for that reason. With that said; I found the entire book interesting (even the... more info

• 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... more info

• 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"!
  

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