zen and anger

This was helpful to read today. It's long, so I'll put it under a cut.

Anger and emotions also reside in our bodies and tend to get stuck there. In the Zen Buddist tradition we have a precept about anger: "A disciple of the Buddha does not harbor anger." Anger happens. It's not a sin or a problem to be angry, but our committment is not to harbor or hold on to that anger, not to encourage it or to make more of it than is necessary. So when anger arises and you feel "Oh, this is anger -- it's unpleasant, it's difficult," you can say to yourself, "I actually don't want to continue to make more of it."

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