Feeding Your Demons
Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

One of the things that continues to amaze me as my practice and investigation of Buddhism goes forward is that almost anything I have come across in my exploration and experience of western psychology is to be found somewhere in the canon of Buddhist practice, always in a far more thorough and acces......more

A Buddhist nun writes a Westerner's interpretation of the niche Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chod. I'm sure there's a lot here that's watered down and simplified--the author wants to introduce the practice to the west, not get into esoteric Buddhist concepts. What's here is an outlining of the basic......more

While this is a wonderful modern presentation of Chöd practice, I had a few concerns. 1. This is not a book I'd recommend to someone who doesn't have a solid grounding in some kind of practice, either Buddhist or with a therapist or as a therapist. 2. Tsultrim Allione makes some alarming claims that......more

LOVED IT Vajrayana/Jungian/IFS with a dark fantasy element? What’s not to love? 1993 me would have drank this up like KOOLAID 😍 2003 me would have SMOKED/SNORTED it 🤪 2013 me would have CHOKED on it 😳 But 2023 me is like… Let’s feed some FUKIN’ DAEMONS YALL 🤩 Seriously great MEDICINE. 5/5 ⭐️’s......more

sultrim Allione was one of the first Western women to ever be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. In this book, she presents an eleventh-century woman’s wisdom to non-Buddhists in simple, easy to understand language that anyone can follow. According to Tsultrim, we can all overcome whatever demons ar......more