Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

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Little, Brown, Oct 14, 2008 - Self-Help - 288 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
THE ANCIENT PRACTICE
11
Meeting the Demon
13
Discovering the Practice
25
What Are Demons?
38
FEEDING YOUR DEMONS
49
How to Feed Your Demons
51
The Five Steps in Action
74
Machigs Four Demons Gods and GodDemons
107
Demons of Illness
118
Demons of Addiction
162
Demons of the Mind
193
The Demon of Egocentricity
225
Direct Liberation
237
Demons in the Wider World
243
From Machigs Last Instructions
254

Demon Complexes
90
Working with Your Demons Through Art and Maps
96
TYPES OF DEMONS
105
Acknowledgments
265
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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.

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