When people and circumstances conspire against us, how can we douse the white-hot fires of rage? This book draws on ancient spiritual wisdom, modern psychology, and neuroscience to guide us in dealing with troublesome people and situations, and overcoming the real source of our distress, our deep-seated self-centeredness and self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg cofounded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and is the New York Times best-selling author of eight books, including Lovingkindness, Faith, and The Power of Meditation. www.sharonsalzberg.comTenzin Robert Thurman, a professor at Columbia University, holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America. He is the author of the bestseller Inner Revolution, as well as Anger, Infinite Life and numerous other books. The first Tibetan Buddhist monk from the West, he has been a close friend and colleague of the Dalai Lama many years. bobthurman.com