The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger
- 4h 48m 40s
- Leonard Scheff, Susan Edmiston
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2010
Imagine you’re circling a crowded parking lot. Just as you spot a space, another driver races ahead and takes it. In a world of road rage, domestic violence, and professionally angry TV and radio commentators, your likely response is anger, even fury. Now imagine that instead of another driver, a cow has lumbered into that parking space and settled down. Your anger dissolves into bemusement. What has changed? Not just the occupant of the space but your perspective on the situation.
We’re a society swimming in anger, always about to snap. Using simple, understandable Buddhist principles, Scheff and Edmiston explain how to replace anger with happiness. They introduce the four kinds of demands that most commonly underlie anger (Important and Reasonable, Reasonable but Unimportant, Irrational, and Impossible), then show how to identify our real unmet demands, dissolve our anger, and change what happens when our buttons are pushed. We learn to laugh at ourselves, a powerful early step, and realize that others don’t make us angry. Only we can make ourselves angry.
In this Audiobook
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CHAPTER 1 A New Approach to Dealing with Anger
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CHAPTER 2 A First Look at Anger
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CHAPTER 3 The Cause of Anger
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CHAPTER 4 The Cost of Anger
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CHAPTER 5 Anger and Awareness
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CHAPTER 6 Pride, Honor, and Other Buttons
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CHAPTER 7 Giving and Receiving
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CHAPTER 8 The Mythology of Happiness
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CHAPTER 9 Unshakeable Calm
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CHAPTER 10 To Be or Not to Be Angry
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CHAPTER 11 Transforming Anger into Compassion
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CHAPTER 12 Coming to a Conclusion
