Chapter One
CONSUMING ANGER
We all need to know how to handle and take care of our anger. To do this, we
must pay more attention to the biochemical aspect of anger, because anger has
its roots in our body as well as our mind. When we analyze our anger, we can see
its physiological elements. We have to look deeply at how we eat, how we drink,
how we consume, and how we handle our body in our daily life.
Anger Is Not Strictly a
Psychological Reality
In the teaching of the Buddha, we learn that our body and mind are not separate.
Our body is our mind, and, at the same time, our mind is also our body. Anger is
not only a mental reality because the physical and the mental are linked to each
other, and we cannot separate them. In Buddhism we call the body/mind formation
namarupa. Namarupa is the psyche-soma, the mind-body as one entity. The same
reality sometimes appears as mind, and sometimes appears as body.
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