The Roots of Anger | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

My anger comes from grief. When I remember that, it takes away the righteous indignation that makes me want to tell people off. But sooner or later, I’m always sorry, because I know we’re all connected and so there’s common roots to the anger, and we all have to rise up together. It’s a very difficult walk, being a human, and so thank God for Thay for his extremely wise ways of bringing the Buddha’a teachings to this time.

I love how when he speaks, you can tell how he is being very mindful about what he is saying. He doesn't recite teachings - he is speaking from the heart.

I love this talk and want to just add one comment: be careful who you ask to help you when you experience anger. That is: Thay speaks from the point of view of his Sangha, and there's a presumption that the person who did something to make you angry can be trusted. So he says to tell them you're angry and also to ask for help. But a lot of people cannot respond to this appropriately. ... When I first learned to embrace my own anger one of the first things I learned was that expressing anger is a way of giving power and responsibility to the other person (who caused the anger to arise). So, not expressing that anger is a way of taking back control and establishing a boundary. So like Thay says, we have to really develop that practice of embracing anger and giving ourselves loving compassion, like mothering an infant... Thay goes on to advocate inter-being, which is the ideal. In most lives, however, we have to be very careful about asking for help. Sometimes it is the right thing to do, but sometimes we have to look elsewhere. We have to find refuge, like in the Buddha, the Dharma, and a true Sangha.

Embracing anger the way a parent tenderly embraces a crying baby to calm it down, such a beautiful image to ponder and practice.

Thich Nhat Hanh is my only mentor and a hero for the world and its human beings. Since discovering this very wise man in 2016. I have learned so much. Yet this powerful 16 minute video still stops me in my tracks and I become totally present to this gentle and intelligent man. Being a better human being is a daily remembering.

“Only understanding and compassion can put down the flame of anger.” 🙏🧡🧡🙏

He’s probably the most adorable person I’ve ever seen.

Buddha teaching is the only way for humanity. Thank you for spreading his compassion ❤ rest in peace sir!!

Endless people talking all the time always trying to sell you something . With this beautiful man, we see mindfulness, loving compassion and truth before he even begins to speak. I am grateful for such a human being in this time of isolation, fear, anger and selfishness.

Thich Nhat Hahn is a beautiful treasure to this world. Thank you !

Anger is rooted in sadness, I’ve always known that.

Darling, I suffer, I am angry, and I want you to know it. I don’t know why you have done such a thing to me. I want you to know I suffer. Darling I am doing my best. I am practicing mindfulness to take care of my anger and I’ll be looking deeply into my anger to see the root. Please help me.

I am immensely grateful to hear, see, feel, experience, embrace every teaching from Beloved Thich Nhat Hanh..May he rest in Peace for Eternity..in this world and the next. may ALL beings Awaken , in the Divine Time for each person. Namaste and Aloha from Hawaii.

Wow! in less than 16 minutes I've found the root of my long lasting anger, it has to do with my inability to survive,I have stop blaming others right now! This man is amazing.

I love Thich Nhat Hanh. 🙏🏽💕

I could listen to him talk forever. His voice is very soothing.

Valuable words. 🙏 But only doable if the other party is able to truely listen and understand your pain. Which is often not the case at all. Only between mindful people. Most often people will use your anger or suffering against you. Also, it should be said that certain times anger is not generated because of what someone did or said. In some people it just comes up in a whoosh. It arouses out if nowhere. They'll try and blame others, but that anger is their's. So, there are various types of people and anger. Keep that in mind! 🙏

What a beautiful way to express, embrace and share the depth of anger. In a world filled with such animosity, Thich Nhat Hanh and his teachings could change our world's events if everyone heard this.🙏

"Understanding and compassion are the only antidotes to anger." ♥️

Thank-you! Nhat, for talking about anger 😠 😡 it is really very unpleasant to be involved in people who have anger in themselves, they make other peoples life hell.