Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
About This Book
A collection of brief, pointed meditations on the transformation of the most challenging emotions — anger, fear, jealousy, grief, and despair — through the application of mindful awareness. Each meditation offers a specific contemplation or practice for working with a particular emotional difficulty, making the book both a practical workbook and a beautiful compilation of Thich Nhat Hanh's most accessible wisdom on inner transformation.
What You'll Learn
Difficult emotions are not enemies to be defeated but signals from the inner being that need attention — the mindful approach is to turn toward them with curiosity and compassion rather than away from them with resistance. The metaphor of the tiger — wild and potentially destructive when encountered unprepared but capable of being a source of power and beauty when worked with skillfully — captures the Buddhist understanding of difficult emotions as energy that can be transformed rather than energy that must be eliminated. Breathing mindfully into and with a difficult emotion — rather than either suppressing it or following it into action — is the most direct available method for transforming its energy from destructive to constructive.
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