Speaker: Mary Lee Mooney. Mary contemplates how we can apply the medicine of Dharma to recognize and purify aggression and anger. We unconsciously mistake ourselves to be singular, independent and permanent. This view arises from and reinforces our habitual tendency to protect ourselves with self-importance and aggression, reactions that in turn lead to more pain and less freedom. To liberate ourselves from self-importance and aggression, the Dharma teaches us simply to observe our thoughts and feelings, neither suppressing nor identifying with them. As we learn to recognize and tolerate uncomfortable experiences, we gain greater awareness of their true nature, and greater confidence in our own buddha nature.