Leading psychologists and meditation teachers explain how mindfulness can help us work with our anger--and ultimately transform it into compassion.
Anger. For all of us, it's a familiar feeling-jaw clenching, face flushing, hands shaking. We feel it for rational and irrational reasons, on a personal and on a global level. If we know how to handle our anger skillfully, it is an effective tool for helping us recognize that a situation needs to change and for providing the energy to create that change. Yet more often anger is destructive-and in its grip we hurt ourselves and those around us.
In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness practice can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being. It also offers us a way of dealing with strong emotions, like anger. This anthology offers a Buddhist perspective on how we can better work with anger and ultimately transform it into compassion, with insight and practices from a variety of contributors, including Thich Nhat Hanh, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Carolyn Gimian, Tara Bennett-Goleman, Pat Enkyo O'Hara, Jules Shuzen Harris, Christina Feldman, Mark Epstein, Ezra Bayda, Judith Toy, Noah Levine, Judy Lief, Norman Fischer, Jack Kornfield, Stan Goldberg, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrül, and many others.

Introduction
PART ONE: Understanding Anger
Sowing the Seeds of Love...Thich Nhat Hanh
The World of Modes and Why They Matter...Tara Bennett-Goleman
Five Habits of Mind That Are Obstacles to Waking Up...Toni Bernhard
Anger Is a Poison...Carolyn Gimian
The Other Side of the Fence...Dzigar Kongtrül
Harnessing the Energy of Anger...Pat Enkyo O’Hara
PART TWO: Practicing with Anger
Uprooting the Seeds of Anger...Jules Shuzen Harris
Another Black Mark...Karen Connelly
Acupressure Point of the Heart...Norman Fischer
Beginning Anew...Sister Chan Khong
When the Tornado Touches Down...Shozan Jack Haubner
Anger as a Sacred Practice...Joan Sutherland
PART THREE: Going Beyond Blame
No Blame...Sylvia Boorstein
Villains and Victims...Mitchell Ratner
Blame Everything on One Thing...B. Alan Wallace
Compassion for Those Who Cause Suffering...Christina Feldman
Fault Lines...Mark Epstein
Empty Graves and Empty Boats...Rachel Neumann
PART FOUR: Finding Forgiveness
What Dogs Do: When an Object No Longer Offends...Karen Maezen Miller
Forgiveness Is Our True Nature...Ezra Bayda
After an Unspeakable Crime...Judith Toy
The Practice of Forgiveness...Jack Kornfield
A Lesson for the Living...Stan Goldberg
Forgiveness Is a Gift...Elaine Pierce
PART FIVE: Opening to Compassion
Developing the Compassionate Heart...Sharon Salzberg
Survival of the Kindest...Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Loving Loving-Kindness...Brian Haycock
Three Lessons in Compassion...Joanna Macy
Kindness Changes Everything...Noah Levine
Biggest Love...Judy Lief
Contributors
Credits
About the Editor

ANDREA MILLER is an editor and staff writer for Shambhala Sun magazine and the editor of Right Here With You.