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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 2: Developing Patience
Description: This episode explores how to cultivate greater patience and cool the painful mind of anger. How does anger arise? Anger arises when we encounter a person or experience we find unpleasant. We then dwell on the faults of this object (this dwelling Buddha calls inappropriate attention) until our mind become unpeaceful and uncontrolled. Anger has arisen. Anger follows this formula: Unpleasant person or experience + inappropriate attention = anger All delusions follow this formula: Object + inappropriate attention = delusion (examples--jealousy, pride, fear, attachment) The solution is to notice when unpleasant feelings are...