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.

Contents: Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing:
Introduction	xi
1. The emotions as friends and enemies	1
2. Using lojong to tame the emotions	17
3. Working with grasping toward the emotions	31
4. Working with personal identity and the habit of self-protection	49
5. Applying lojong to the five aggregates	63
6. Finding a friend in lojong	83
7. Lojong and the vajrayana vehicle	103
8. Using lojong to release old patterns	123
Appendix: The heart sutra	141
About the authors	145