When you think of meditation, you probably imagine someone sitting still—serene and blissful—far removed from the agitations of life. Now think of something you're angry about and well … that image of meditation has probably fled in fear. So when you read the title of this article, "The Anger Meditation," I'll bet you had a moment of cognitive dissonance.

As anger is one of the “three poisons” in Buddhism, and meditation is the primary practice of Buddhism, it's reasonable to assume that meditation is designed to extract or to calm the poison of anger from our system. Indeed, many people take up meditation explicitly in order to become calmer

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