Summary: Dealing with difficult people is the topic of this episode. You can’t live in this world very long, before you run across difficult people. Difficult people tend to produce annoyance in others by their words or actions. But as Buddhists, we can entirely remove this annoyance. The Buddha gives us five ways of doing this. Text: "Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed by a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?.” - AN 5.161 Outline: Introduction A. The First Way to remove people related annoyance is through loving-kindness. B. The Second Way to remove people related annoyance is through compassion. C. The Third Way to remove people related annoyance is through equanimity. D. The Fourth Way to remove people related annoyance is through forgetting and ignoring. E. The Fifth Way to remove people related annoyance is through trusting karma. Conclusion
