Best advice? Feed your demons.
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In the Chöd practice you welcome them like you would your child, gradually get a bodily felt sense of how they are doing and what they need, arouse intense compassion, and visualize feeding them your body (your most prized possession) cheffed up to satisfy the need.
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Lama tsultrim allione has a great book that makes this practice a beautiful and vivid drawing/journaling/meditation practice, called feeding your demons, I have found it very helpful!
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+1 for . That was my next recommendation! She has a variation on the traditional practice that’s very intelligent, modern and good I think.
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What would be your preferred source for this practice, if there's anything else in writing?
Asking, uh, for a demon...
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The only thing I’ve read aside from feeding your demons by Lama tsultrim was some photocopies texts from Jamgon Kongtrul during a retreat not sure what the primary source was!
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Yup, already put down the former on my express order list, which really only exists because I'm a bit broke right now or I'd already have a copy!