Today is the 12th of June 1992. We are in the Lower Hamlet. There is a form that was invented by Plum Village for your use every time you get angry. In Plum Village, we practice this: when you get angry at someone, at something, don't keep your anger too long. Don't keep your anger more than twenty-four hours.

And this is also from the tradition, because during the twelfth century in Vietnam, there was a monk who got very angry because someone had killed his father. Another monk, seeing him like that, said: "It's all right for a monk to get angry, but a monk should not get angry more than twenty-four hours." And that was very strong; it helped the monk very much. He worked intensively, and he overcame his anger.

We know that when we get angry, anger becomes a poison in us. And if we keep it too long, it will destroy us and eventually destroy the other person and