http://www.buddhistbelief.com/buddhist-belief/buddhist-belief-how-do-you-deal-with-anger Buddhist Beliefs and Teachings in Plain English Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.buddhistbelief.com/buddhist-belief/buddhist-belief-how-do-you-deal-with-anger/comment-page-1#comment-11 Mary Rosendale Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:15:45 +0000 http://www.buddhistbelief.com/?p=25#comment-11 Nice post. You ask, how do you deal with anger? "Dealing with" implies some necessity of interaction. I don't believe there is one. In fact, anger rises and falls away without our doing anything to make it go away. We cannot control its arising. We can only choose whether to develop it and keep it around longer. When we consistently choose not to develop it, it may stop rising up so frequently. Remember Behavioral theory? Behavior that is reinforced tends to keep cropping up? Nice post. You ask, how do you deal with anger? “Dealing with” implies some necessity of interaction. I don’t believe there is one. In fact, anger rises and falls away without our doing anything to make it go away. We cannot control its arising. We can only choose whether to develop it and keep it around longer. When we consistently choose not to develop it, it may stop rising up so frequently. Remember Behavioral theory? Behavior that is reinforced tends to keep cropping up?

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