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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 6, 2012

Cutting Through Anger

Mental noting takes us in a very different direction from getting lost in a story: “Oh, this anger is so miserable; I am such a terrible person because I’m always angry; this is just how I will always be,” and so on. Instead, we simply say to ourselves, “anger, anger”—and cut through all of that elaboration, the story, the judgment, the interpretation.

- Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, "Emotions and Hindrances"
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