
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

A demon means anything which hinders liberation.”
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
He has tried to control all social situations to avoid provoking an attack, and has also abused drugs and alcohol to relax in social situations. As a result of his phobia, Douglas has suffered a great deal of anger and frustration for many years.
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
We see this perhaps most vividly in two-year-olds as they grab a toy and scream “Mine!”
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
Derek was dealing with a god of desire and a demon of compulsion. He longed for erotic freedom and was afraid of commitment.
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
Fundamentally all the demons that we have looked at are thought processes that block a state of clear awareness, and they grow out of this demon of ego fixation. The practice of feeding your demons seeks to liberate all these demons and transform the energy caught up in them into positive energy,
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
they all assume the issue is the substance rather than the person’s relationship to it.
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
When she spent money, she felt both giddiness and anxiety. She located this demon in the trunk of her body.
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
where there is egocentricity, there are demons and gods; where there is no egocentricity, there are no demons or gods. We
Tsultrim Allione • Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
When we suffer from an outburst of anger, anxiety, or stress, instead of seeing it as something to suppress, fight against, or be ashamed of, we could see it as a demon demanding attention.