Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict [Hardcover]

Tsultrim Allione (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 8, 2008

Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice to the West for the first time with FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione-one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chodron-bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today's Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly articulated practice outlined in FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace.

Editorial Reviews

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"Tsultrim Allione has performed a remarkable feat of cultural translation and offered the western world a new treasure. With exquisite detail and accuracy she shows us how we can transform the energy of addiction, shame, illness, anxiety, fear, and anger into the energy of liberation." -- from the forward by Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"In Feeding Your Demons Tsultrim Allione offers us a powerful and transformative practice...one that can heal the deepest wounds and reveal profound spiritual truths. What is so striking is how, through her own tremendous clarity and heart, Allione brings this practice alive and renders it truly accessible. This book will serve all those who want to untangle the tangles with wisdom and love."-Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance



"Tsultrim Allione shows us what life could look like if we were not struggling, not hating ourselves for our problems and frailties, but rather were relating to these challenges with awareness and compassion. She illuminates a clear and practical guide to transformation, based on her many years of exceptional meditation training."-Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness



"Feeding Your Demons is a bold, beautiful, and original work, a book that Carl Jung could only have dreamed of writing. Bringing the wisdom of Tibet straight into our daily lives, Tsultrim Allione shares the accumulated fruits of her own deep understanding. She does this in a completely accessible way, taking the most profound insights and rendering them simply and straightforwardly without compromising them. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, a gift to all who read it."-Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Psychotherapy without the Self

"Feeding Your Demons offers an original and powerful approach to challenging the forces at work in the shadows of our psyche. Tsultrim Allione has done a masterful job of translating ancient-and fascinating-methods to heal modern emotional troubles."-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (April 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316013137
• ISBN-13: 978-0316013130
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Much Needed Book, April 9, 2008

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This review is from: Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict (Hardcover)

This book offers a profound approach to resolving that with which we struggle inside (and outside too). I have been working with this process--so clearly explained by the author--and have found it to be extremely effective. The premise is simple: anything you fight and/or banish to your shadow will just find ways to haunt you even more, so why not find a way to provide it with the attention and compassion it really needs. This process has helped me to resolve and transform some deep-seated fears and issues. If peace begins within, this book goes a long way towards helping change what is frustrating in the world. I give it my highest recommendation.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fighting demons doesn't work. Making friends with them does., April 6, 2008

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Susan V. Purcell "Verde" (Pagosa Springs, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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I have found this to be a highly effective, fascinating way of working with my emotions. I don't know about you but I have some inner demons, some forces that exert power over me whether I want them to or not and lead me toward a negative place. Tsultrim Allione's method of feeding these "demons" has given me a way of contacting those places in my mind and sort of sitting down to tea with them. It's a way of making friends, of coming to understand what they are all about. The end result is that the demon is no longer an enemy but becomes an ally. Or else just goes away and leaves me alone. I love the peaceful aspect of this method, the nonviolence. It's like the Mahatma Gandhi of self help.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, very transformative, April 9, 2008

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This review is from: Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict (Hardcover)

I found this book to be incredibly powerful and transformative. A captivating and smooth read with a great message. The technique outlined in the book is simple yet profound, and was really effective for me. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in shedding old patterns and becoming happier in general (and who isn't!).