Taming the Tiger

7:00pm 01 August 2025 - 3:00pm 04 August 2025

Cost: £0.00

Venue: Samye Ling

The course will reference “Taming the Tiger” and “Restoring The Balance” two books by Akong Tulku Rinpoche –both of which Clive helped to edit.

“Not to do harmful things, always aspiring to do the helpful, to tame the mind –that is the essence of the teachings”

Without intending harm, we can become our own worst enemies when we act, speak and think in a wild and reckless way.

This weekend we will be investigating some help in this from the world of Buddhism like “taming the tiger”, taming the monkey mind.

It is essential not to just know meditation intellectually but embody the dharma-the teachings of Lord Buddha too.

There will be many opportunities to practise meditations and visualisations over the weekend.

Bookings for this course and guest accommodation will open from 10th June 2025. Please email: bookings@samyeling.org from 10th June onwards.

There is no course fee for this weekend.   If you wish to make a donation towards the Monastery's costs you can do so in the Reception Office in Samye Ling.

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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche