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Taming the Tiger Within ““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”” — Thich Nhat Hanh The practice described here is inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Taming the Tiger Within- Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions. The tiger in his book represents anger. The idea is to transform this negative emotion into compassion, using the energy of mindfulness.. Here are the five steps recommended by Thich Nhat Hanh: Recogize Embrace Investigate/Observe Insight Transform ..read more

Anger is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family ..read more

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I imagine the small oval is the center of a flower that I link through black ink to the life of my daughter ..read more

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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free ..read more

This segment on NPR is about a Climate Resilience class taught on eight campuses of the University of California in the 2024 Spring Quarter. I am part of the team teaching on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Listen or read the transcript, paying special attention to the practices suggested and give them a try ..read more

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