The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger
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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 kinds of demands that most commonly underlie 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.

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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 kinds of demands that most commonly underlie 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.
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Scheff, L., & Edmiston, S. (2010). The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger. Unabridged. Highbridge Company.

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Scheff, Leonard and Susan, Edmiston. 2010. The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger. Highbridge Company.

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Scheff, Leonard and Susan, Edmiston, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger. Highbridge Company, 2010.

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Scheff, Leonard, and Susan Edmiston. The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger. Unabridged. Highbridge Company, 2010.

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