THE SNOW LION NEWSLETTER Working with Anger: A Phone Course with Thubten Chodron Course Schedule Start Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Dates: May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31 (2006) Time: 1:00-2:00 PM (Eastern Time)* Price: $60.00 * Phone recording available for up to one week; MP3 recording & transcript also available. Read about the June 2006 Chenrezig Cultivation of Compassion Retreat Course Description Anger plagues all of us on a personal, national, and international level. Yet, we see people, such as H. H. the Dalai Lama, who have faced circumstances far worse than many of us have faced—including exile, persecution, and the loss of many loved ones—but who do not burn with rage or seek revenge. How do they do it?

This series will present a variety of Buddhist methods for subduing and preventing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by framing it differently. We will also discuss anger's relations with other emotions such as attachment, fear, and depression. No matter what our religion, learning to work with our anger effectively benefits everyone seeking personal happiness as well as world peace.

Course Overview

Session One: What is anger? How does it operate in us? How does anger manifest in our body and mind? What is patience?

Session Two: Coping with criticism, blame, and the betrayal of trust. How to work with the judgmental mind and transform it into seeing the beauty in others.

Session Three: Anger and attachment, fear, and depression. How can we let go before these emotions destroy our happiness? How to generate love in difficult situations.

Session Four: Anger at ourselves, cultivating love, compassion, and tolerance for ourselves and others.

Recommended Readings
Chodron, Thubten. Working with Anger Snow Lion Publications, 2001.

H.H. the Dalai Lama. Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective Snow Lion Publications, 1997.

Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition. A student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan masters, she became a nun in 1977. She has been resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and at Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. Active in interfaith dialogue, she also does Dharma outreach in prisons and teaches the Dharma worldwide. She is abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in eastern Washington State. She is the author of several books, including Open Heart, Clear Mind; Buddhism for Beginners; Taming the Mind; Working with Anger; How to Free Your Mind: Tara the Liberator. Ven. Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha's teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners.

More about Thubten Chodron . . .

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Thubten Chodron is the author of several books, including:

• Choosing Simplicity

• Cultivating a Compassionate Heart

• How to Free Your Mind: Tara the Liberator

• Buddhism for Beginners

• Open Heart, Clear Mind

• Taming the Mind

• Working with Anger

Read the Interview with Thubten Chodron in the Snow Lion Newsletter Winter 2006 edition.