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The Cow in the Parking Lot

A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

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The Cow in the Parking Lot

Written by: Leonard Scheff, Susan Edmiston
Narrated by: Bill Mendieta
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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 most common types of 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.

©2010 Leonard Scheff and Susan Edmiston (P)2010 HighBridge Company Anger Management Self-Help Success
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Loved the parables and the teaching. There are also prescribe exercises to control one's anger. This book served to be an eye opener for me

beautiful presentation and ideas

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This book brings home the reality of life and a reasoning on the need to control ones anger

Great Book on self control

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Narrator handles quotations using a comical accent! It was unnecessary and distracting. The accent reminded me of dubbed kung-fu movies.

Annoying Narrator

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