Stop Biting the Tail You're Chasing: Using Buddhist Mind Training to Free Yourself from Painful Emotional Patterns

How to be free from bondage to your emotions: a practical and powerful Buddhist teaching for training the mind to be content in any circumstance.

Are emotions our friends or our enemies? Is it possible to free ourselves from emotional conflict? The Buddhist practice of lojong is a way of letting go of attachment to both “positive” and “negative” emotions and leads to profound insight and compassion, unbounded by our habitual reactions. This book provides a set of tools that you can apply in daily life to gradually relieve your own suffering and extend that relief to everyone you encounter.

Anyen Rinpoche is a tulku from Tibet of the Nyingma (Longchen Nyingthig) tradition. He is the author of The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta, Dying with Confidence, Journey to Certainty, Momentary Buddhism, and with Allison Choying Zangmo, The Tibetan Yoga of Breath. He founded the Orgyen Khamdroling Dharma Center and lives in Denver, Colorado.

Allison Choying Zangmo is Anyen Rinpoche’s spiritual partner, personal translator, and a longtime student of both Rinpoche and his root lama, Kyabje Tsara Dharmakirti. She lives in Denver, Colorado.