CURBING ANGER SPREADING LOVE  

As we know all too well, anger causes unhappiness to ourselves and to others. If we could only live with less anger and more love, we feel, we would be able to spread much cheer and happiness, and to experience greater happiness within. This book, based on principles of Buddhist mental training, is intended to show that it lies within our own power to curb anger and to spread love. In simple and clear language the author explains how, by methodical mental training, we can evict the demon of anger from our minds and hearts, and become a loving friend, a source of joy and comfort, to all those who come within the circle of our life. These instructions will be found valid and effective by anyone of any religion, or of no religion at all, for they require nothing more than a willingness to gain greater mastery over one•s own mind.    

CONTENTS

Prologue 1

Anger - A Destructive Emotion 3 

Antidotes for Anger 13

Love 53 

Metta-bhavana- - The Cultivation of 

Loving-kindness 59  

Practising Mindfulness and Metta 75 

Benefits of Metta 79 

Curbing Anger, Spreading Love 95 

Epilogue 99

The author, Bhikkhu Visuddhacara, is a Buddhist monk residing in Penang, Malaysia..