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Handling strong emotions
The Retreat on Buddhist Psychology continues in Key West, Florida, on November 7, 1997. This sixth 96-minute talk explores the seed of anger and the practice of mindfulness of anger. Thay guides us to generate mindfulness, recognize anger, and look deeply into its nature through deep looking, the four mantras, deep listening, and loving speech so that communication can be restored.
He shares a song he wrote for practice, encouraging tender embrace of pain and watering seeds of harmony, loving kindness, peace, joy, and forgiveness so transformation becomes possible and we can accept and love each other.
Thay reflects on how we water our store consciousness through consumption, asking whether we intoxicate ourselves with seeds of craving and despair. He expresses excitement about mindfulness influencing legislation (such as smoking) and everyday choices (like buying tofu), and presents the Five Mindfulness Trainings as a concrete way to be mindful of consciousness.
The talk continues with a deeper teaching on the first aspect of meditation—stopping—and, in the final fifteen minutes, returns to the verses of consciousness, focusing on verse 13 and the theme of inter-penetration.
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