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Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

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Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
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Taming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and exquisite guide for bringing harmony and healing to one's life and relationships.

Acclaimed scholar, peace activist, and Buddhist master revered by people of all faiths, Thich Nhat Hanh has inspired millions worldwide with his insight into the human heart and mind. Now he focuses his profound spiritual wisdom on the basic human emotions everyone struggles with on a daily basis.


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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.34435
EAN: 9781594481345
ISBN: 1594481342
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2005-09-06
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Studio: Riverhead Trade


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• True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good book
Comment: Sent this to my daughter who is away out of state for college. She liked it.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the price
Comment: Not up to what I expected the book to be. There are other books by the author that are well worth the price but this one is not.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Anger Management
Comment: This book reiterates in a different and more pithy format--one major idea on each page presented in a centered paragraph--the same ideas that were presented in his other book "Anger, Wisdom for Cooling the Flames." A very good book for getting anger under control using basic Buddhist philosophy, which is the practice of what Hanh calls Mindfulness, which means being present, aware and living in present time. I highly recommend this book for quick-tempered people, who wish they had their temper more under control.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most devout and peaceful men that one will ever have the pleasure of reading. A lifelong peace activist, Buddhist monk, and beacon of hope of in a dark world, "Taming the Tiger Within" is not unlike reading a few notes from the chorus of a monastery and hearing them at the same time.

Essentially, Hanh is only telling us what we should already know and practice with ourselves and our loved ones in a tone of gentleness and love--without a hint of condescencion. Many of us would ask, "How can we actually return home after a busy, nettlesome day and not express our anger in immature ways, just to vent?" (privately, of course). Hanh's response is simple: talk about it. Be it. This means shedding a lot of the illusions (the ego goes first, of course) and being totally vulnerable which a lot of are simply not willing to do. Without this willingness which sets free, however, we are always a slave to destruction.

Despite being more of a "quick read" as many reviewers have pointed out, this quick read contains more wisdom than busty tomes of theology on Buddhism or any faith. Perfect.

Customer Rating:
Summary: As inspirational, helpful, intelligent ...as his other great works.
Comment: Actually I find it hard to comment on the author's books with words other than the standard positive ones coz they are always as intelligent, bright, inspirational, helpful....as they can be. I just keep do so to keep a record for my own reference. Pardon me. In short, recommended.

Below please find some of my favorite passages for your reference.

Every time you feel lost alienated, or cut off from life, or from the world, every time you feel despair, anger or instability, practice going home. Mindful breaking is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home. pg 99

If your house is on fire, the most urgent thing to do is to go back and try to put out the fire, not to run after the person you believe to be the arsonist. pg 107

The reason we are foolish enough to make ourselves suffer and make the other person suffer is that we forget that we and the other person are impermanent. Someday, when we die, we will lose all our possessions, our power, our family, everything. Our freedom, peace, and joy in the present moment is the most important thing we have. But without an awakened understanding of impermanence, it is not possible to be happy. pg 119

If it is your partner who is angry, just listen. Listen and do not react....Do not listen for the purpose of judging, criticizing, or analyzing. Listen only to help the other person express himself and find some relief from his suffering. pg 159

We cannot enjoy life if we spend a lot of time worrying about what happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow. We worry about tomorrow because we are afraid. If we are afraid all the time, we cannot appreciate that we are alive and can be happy now. pg 179

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