Taming the Tiger: Tibetan Teachings on Right Conduct, Mindfulness, and Universal Compassion

by Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Book Overview

Taming the tiger of the mind is a necessary step on the path to personal growth and self-mastery. With wit and wisdom, Akong Tulku Rinpoche teaches how to confront and subdue the ceaseless mental chatter within. True peace, he explains, may be achieved through a practical program for cultivating awareness and bringing the spiritual into everyday life. Only then may we find the sort of happiness that also brings happiness to others. The author explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892815698
• ISBN13: 9780892815692
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Inner Traditions International
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Taming the Tiger : Tibetan Teachings on Right Conduct, Mindfulness. and Universal Compassion

This book is a wonderfull self help tool, helping you to understand your ego, I am still attempting to learn the meditations. Very well written and easy to understand, I highly recommend it to any one interested in learning more about Tibetan Buddism.

Develop your visualisation practice

This is a great book. What sets it apart from any other dharma book is that it has a program of sequential practical (and potent) exercises, which give the practitioner a thorough basic understanding of how to develop a visualisation practice from the inborn mind of enlightenment (bodhichitta). The program develops step-by-step, as each exercise awakens and strengthens an understanding that is necesssary as a basis for the next exercise. As such the vajrayana can be understood as a natural culmination of mahayana; the one flows naturally from the other. I highly recommend this book, "Taming the Tiger", also as a practical companion and counterpart of other, philosophically more advanced writings, such as "Creation and Completion" (by Jamgon Kongtrul), to anyone who cares to understand what the vajrayana (diamond vehicle) of Tibetan Buddhism is really all about.

Basic yet Complete

I found this book to be of excellent use for persons who are interested in calming their minds. It is based on tried and tested methods which have been and are still successful to this date.

Taming the Tiger

I am a new comer to Buddhism, and I found this book informative and easy to understand. Each chapter is clearly written and the concepts are clearly explained. Reading the book was very beneficial.