Getting rid of resentment
Another article I published on Wildmind:
Ann Lamott, in her novel Crooked Little Heart, says that holding onto resentment is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
Resentment is seductive. We assume on some level that it's going to help us, but it doesn't. It just causes us pain.
This is something that just about all of us need help with.
1600 years ago, a compiler and commenter of Buddhist texts called Buddhaghosa, put together an extraordinary "tool kit" of ways to deal with resentment. I was recently looking at this and thought it was so apt and well thought-out that it was worth putting out …
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