Via Daily Dharma: Nipping the Buds of Negative Emotions

 

We create anger by a series of thoughts that result in a particular emotional and physiological state. Anger doesn’t just happen to us. If we’re able to catch an angry thought as it’s budding, we can let it go.

—John Daido Loori Roshi, “Between Two Mountains”

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