Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

by Tsultrim Allione
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

by Tsultrim Allione

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Overview

Are you wrestling with your demons? Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction, or anger? Renowned American Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. If we want to liberate ourselves from the fight once and for all, we must reverse our approach and nurture our demons.

In Feeding Your Demons, Allione adapts the revolutionary wisdom of Tibet’s greatest female spiritual master for the first time, providing a powerful method for coping with the inner enemies that undermine your best intentions. Based on an extraordinarily simple yet effective five-step practice, Feeding Your Demons outlines a strategy for transforming negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. By recognizing your demons, giving them form, and then feeding them, you can free yourself from the battle. And the paradigm shift from fighting to feeding demons can apply not only to your personal challenges but also to the challenges of the world at large. 

Enriched with detailed examples to show how others have transformed their demons, Feeding Your Demons will give you remarkable new insight into the forces that threaten to defeat you, along with the tools to achieve inner peace.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316013130
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 04/08/2008
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 239,114
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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 Labdrön 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   Jack Kornfield     ix
Introduction     3
The Ancient Practice
Meeting the Demon     13
Discovering the Practice     25
What Are Demons?     38
Feeding Your Demons
How to Feed Your Demons     51
The Five Steps in Action     74
Hydras: Demon Complexes     90
Working with Your Demons Through Art     96
Types of Demons
Machig's Four Demons, Gods, and God-Demons     107
Demons of Illness     118
Demons of Fear     135
Demons of Love     151
Demons of Addiction     162
Demons of Abuse     172
Family Demons     180
Demons of the Mind     193
Demons of Elation     217
The Demon of Egocentricity     225
Deepening Your Demon Work
Direct Liberation     237
Demons in the Wider World     143
Afterword: From Machig's Last Instructions     255
Author's Postscript     259
Abbreviated Version of the Five Steps of Feeding Your Demons     263
Further Reading     269
Resources     271
Acknowledgments     273
Index     277
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