Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier (10th Anniversary)
Love Your Enemies
by Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1401975690 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 7.2 MB
by Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1401975690 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 7.2 MB
Coping with anger and pain is more challenging than ever in these times—and more necessary. Two acclaimed Buddhist teachers offer strategies and wisdom in a book that’s been called “possibly the most inspiring and liberating meditation on love ever written.”
When people and circumstances upset us, how do we deal with them? Often, we feel victimized. We become hurt, angry, and defensive. We end up seeing others as enemies, and when things don’t go our way, we become enemies to ourselves.
But what if we could move past this pain, anger, and defensiveness?
Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, this book introduces us to the four kinds of enemies we encounter in life: the outer enemy, people, institutions, and situations that mean to harm us; the inner enemy, anger, hatred, fear, and other destructive emotions; the secret enemy, self-obsession that isolates us from others; and the super-secret enemy, deep-seated self-loathing that prevents…