Anger

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Listen with only one purpose: to allow the other person to express himself and find relief from his suffering.

Compassionate listening is a very deep practice. You listen not to judge or to blame. You listen just because you want the other person to suffer less.

we want to be allied in taking good care of our sorrow, our anger, and our frustration. We want to negotiate a strategy for peace.

We are more than our anger, we are more than our suffering. We must recognize that we do have within us the capacity to love, to understand, to be compassionate.

Most of our suffering is born from our lack of understanding and insight that there is no separate self. The other person is you, you are the other person.

if your mindfulness is not strong enough, you ask a brother or a sister in the practice to sit close to you, to breathe with you, to walk with you in order to support you with his or her mindfulness energy.