The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger Audiobook (Free)

Envision you’re circling a crowded parking lot. Just like you spot a space, another driver races ahead and requires it. In a world of road rage, domestic violence, and professionally furious Television and radio commentators, your likely response is anger, even fury. Now imagine that rather than another drivers, a cow provides lumbered into that parking space and settled down. Your anger dissolves into bemusement. What offers changed? Not just the occupant of the area however your perspective on the situation. We’re a society swimming in anger, always about to snap. Using simple, understandable Buddhist principles, Scheff and Edmiston explain how to replace anger with joy. They introduce the four kinds of demands that most generally underlie anger (Important and Sensible, Fair but Unimportant, Irrational, and Impossible), then present how to identify our genuine unmet needs, dissolve our anger, and transformation what goes on when our buttons are pushed. We figure out how to have fun at ourselves, a robust early step, and recognize that others don’t make us furious. Only we are able to make ourselves upset.