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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

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 Personal Development Personal Success Rage Zen Anger
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Book has good content but I found the narrator voice irritating when he puts on a Asian voice.

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This book has some gems inside, however the narrator goes a bit overboard with his version of Dhalai Lamas accent... thats just weird...
tolerable otherwise

The narrator gets a bit too enthusiastic

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