How to be free from bondage to your emotions- a practical and powerful Buddhist teaching for training the mind to be content in any circumstance.
ANYEN RINPOCHE 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 is founder of the Orgyen Khamdroling Center, Denver, CO, 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.
“There is no better way to bring intelligence, sanity, and love
into the world than moving away from fixating on the self, and
instead, working for the well-being of others. In Stop Biting
the Tail You’re Chasing, Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo
present us with a fresh, insightful, and engaging look at the most
essential, practical, and potent instructions on how to do just
that—the lojong or mind training teachings. I think you will find
this book a great guide on how to move through the world with joy
and grace.” —Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, author of The Logic of Faith
and The Power of an Open Question
“The lojong teachings on working with destabilizing emotions are
Tibet’s great gift to a world in desperate need of them. In Stop
Biting the Tail You’re Chasing we hear the wise and patient voice
of Anyen Rinpoche, fully immersed in these teachings as only a
Tibetan tulku can be, along with his longtime collaborator, Allison
Choying Zangmo, kindly speaking to us about how to apply this
wisdom to our contemporary lives. Though the teachings are subtle
and profound, this is a simple, accessible, and inspiring
discussion. This is a book I will read again and again.”—Norman
Fischer, poet, Zen priest, author of Training in Compassion, and
co-author of What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind
“Stop Biting the Tail You’re Chasing interweaves timeless
wisdom from the greatest masters in Mahayana Buddhism with both
Anyen Rinpoche’s and Khandro Allison Choying Zangmo’s own
experience and advice, allowing western, English readers the
opportunity to access these teachings and apply them directly to
their lives. We are grateful to them for these efforts and
especially to Rinpoche for dedicating himself to this cause.”
—Sangye Khandro, Light of Berotsana, teacher and translator
“This volume is a treasure of profound Buddhist teachings on the
trainings of the mind, lojong, that transmute every moment of our
lives into true sources of benefit to oneself and others. I pray
that we may all put them into practice.”—Tulku Thondup, author
of The Heart of Unconditional Love
“By training the mind to recognize the power of emotional
attachment, Anyen wishes to show how '[the] root of all unhappiness
is self-cherishing.' At the core of self-cherishing is an unhealthy
attachment to the hope for permanence and an idea of the self, he
writes. Anyen's antidote is threefold: to train the mind to detach
emotions from identities and see the former as sources of
information, to understand that the nature of everything is empty
and illusory, and then to break out of old habitual patterns of
emotional and physical behaviors. One is 'fully responsible' for
dealing with one's emotions and emotional reactions, he writes, and
lojong practice is the way to begin recognizing, applying, and
persevering with that responsibility. While Anyen's book may tread
familiar ground, it is a skillful, well-structured, and accessible
introduction to the practice of lojong that will appeal to novices
of Buddhist meditation.”—Publishers Weekly
“Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing offers a myriad of
mind-training tools for relieving our suffering, extending that
relief to those around us, and experiencing and sharing
joy.”—Lion's Roar
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