Are emotions our friends or our enemies? Is it possible to free ourselves from emotional conflict? The Buddhist practice of lojong is a way of letting go of attachment to both "positive" and "negative" emotions and leads to profound insight and compassion, unbounded by our habitual reactions. This book provides a set of tools that you can apply in daily life to gradually relieve your own suffering and extend that relief to everyone you encounter. Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing: Using Buddhist Mind Training to Free Yourself from Painful Emotional Patterns, Anyen Rinpoche, Allison Choying Zangmo, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 141 pages, $16.95
Anyen Rinpoche, a tulku from Amdo, is a Tibetan master of Dzogchen meditation as well as a seasoned scholar. He has taught extensively in Tibet, China, and throughout Southeast Asia, Japan, and North America. He lives primarily in Denver, Colorado, where he founded Orgyen Khamdroling Center with a shedra (college) for Westerners.
Allison Choying Zangmo is Anyen Rinpoche's personal translator and a longtime student of both Rinpoche and his root lama, Kyabje Tsara Dharmakirti. She has either translated or collaborated with Rinpoche on all of his books. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Contents: Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing:
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Introduction
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xi
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1. The emotions as friends
and enemies
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1
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2. Using
lojong to tame the emotions
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17
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3. Working with grasping
toward the emotions
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31
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4. Working with personal
identity and the habit of self-protection
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49
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Applying lojong to the five aggregates
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63
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6. Finding a friend in lojong
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83
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Lojong and the vajrayana vehicle
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103
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8. Using lojong to release
old patterns
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123
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Appendix: The heart sutra
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141
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About the authors
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145
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