Taming the Tiger

7:00pm 03 October 2025 - 4:00pm 05 October 2025

Cost: £63.00

Venue: Samye Ling

“Refrain from all harm
Bring benefit to others
Tame our own mind.
This is the teaching of the Buddha”    

Shakyamuni Buddha

This weekend course will focus on Taming the Tiger, a book written by Akong Rinpoche.  This is Rinpoche's gift to Westerners, a culturally-attuned set of teachings and meditations to help us understand and tame our minds.

The weekend is suitable for newcomers and also for those who have previously participated in a Taming The Tiger weekend and who wish to continue their study and practice.

Bookings for this course will open on 1st August 2025, when you will be able to book your place on the course and also guest accommodation. Please send an email to bookings@samyeling.org.

The weekend is presented by Brion Sweeney. Brion is a Tara Rokpa Therapist who was trained by Akong Rinpoche to present this work. Brion has also worked as a psychiatrist since 1980 and as a psychotherapist since 1986.

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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