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  • Painted Tigers: Meeting Fear with Mindfulness

    Painted Tigers: Meeting Fear with Mindfulness

    When Joseph Goldstein speaks about fear, he often invokes a vivid image from Zen lore, the painted tiger. A monk once painted a tiger so lifelike that when he stepped back to admire his work, he became terrified of it. Goldstein says, “We paint pictures in our minds of what will be, and then become…