New Year’s Eve, various teachings, Kalama Sutta, relevant, Magadhi, throwing a tantrum, cold-hearted conceptual analysis, Kisa Gotami, totally identified in our heads, approximations, anger, wimpish, ineffectual, transformative power, strength, wisdom, meditation, cultivate compassion, flavour of solitude, nectar of peace, mother, intentional wishing, ‘may I be free from suffering’, contentment, conflated with complacency, abdication, ocean, stillness, turmoil, multidimensional, anger, protection, determinations, spiritual muscles, atrophy, 5 minute meditation on compassion, metta bhavana.