Living and Dying with Confidence
A Day-by-Day Guide
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A daily companion for embracing life, preparing for death, and awakening to reality.
Anyen Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher, and his longtime student and translator Allison Choying Zangmo present ancient and rich teachings on death in a contemporary, accessible manner. Learn how to release your attachments, embrace impermanence, cultivate virtue, and see the world as it really is—one day at a time.
Their practical, disciplined timeline encourages step-by-step development of qualities such as lovingkindness, compassion, generosity, and patience. Each day offers a short teaching followed by a specific, concrete exercise to help you reflect on and fully integrate the message.
Through vivid and evocative contemplative scenarios and action items, Living and Dying with Confidence brings practice off the cushion and into ordinary life.
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Tibetan Buddhist master Anyen Rinpoche and his student and translator, Zangmo, offer readers a year-long course in achieving detachment from overwhelming concerns. Organized around a theme for each month, such as impermanence, coping with loss, patience, or daily practice, this guide provides exercises to contemplate. Though brief, they raise serious introspective questions and nicely build upon one another. This seemingly simple and sparse approach allows the daily tasks to be clear while, at times, strenuously demanding. The work suggests undertaking the year along with a community, but it is unclear how the personal reflections and actions are to be shared or discussed with others. The authors' gentle, deductive approach returns death from the periphery of Western experience to the central question of existence every day. Rather than encouraging a passive consumption of Buddhist thought, the work seeks to cultivate an attitude in readers that will pay large dividends for those who follow the course.
