Feeding Your Demons Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
by Allione, TsultrimEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-08
Publisher(s): Little, Brown Spark
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Summary
Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice to the West for the first time with FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione-one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chodron-bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today's Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly articulated practice outlined in FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace.
Author Biography
Tsultrim Allione was one of the first Western women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She is considered an authority in the world of American religious life, recognized as an emanation of Machig Labdr+¦n by the resident Lama at Zangri Khangmar, and chapters have been written about her in several books. Allione is the founder and director of Tara Mandala, a retreat center in Colorado and the author of the classic Women of Wisdom.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Ancient Practice | |
| Meeting the Demon | p. 13 |
| Discovering the Practice | p. 25 |
| What Are Demons? | p. 38 |
| Feeding Your Demons | |
| How to Feed Your Demons | p. 51 |
| The Five Steps in Action | p. 74 |
| Hydras: Demon Complexes | p. 90 |
| Working with Your Demons Through Art | p. 96 |
| Types of Demons | |
| Machig's Four Demons, Gods, and God-Demons | p. 107 |
| Demons of Illness | p. 118 |
| Demons of Fear | p. 135 |
| Demons of Love | p. 151 |
| Demons of Addiction | p. 162 |
| Demons of Abuse | p. 172 |
| Family Demons | p. 180 |
| Demons of the Mind | p. 193 |
| Demons of Elation | p. 217 |
| The Demon of Egocentricity | p. 225 |
| Deepening Your Demon Work | |
| Direct Liberation | p. 237 |
| Demons in the Wider World | p. 143 |
| Afterword: From Machig's Last Instructions | p. 255 |
| Author's Postscript | p. 259 |
| Abbreviated Version of the Five Steps of Feeding Your Demons | p. 263 |
| Further Reading | p. 269 |
| Resources | p. 271 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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