Loving life as it is : a Buddhist guide to ultimate happiness

Loving life as it is A Buddhist guide to ultimate happiness

Jigme Wangdrak

Book - 2024

"What makes you happy? What causes you to suffer? This book from an insightful new voice in Tibetan Buddhism offers practical wisdom and radical practices to embrace suffering--an inevitable part of human life--and find freedom, or happiness. Jigme Wangdrak is a contemporary teacher born and trained in eastern Tibet and based in California who is the unique holder of the Dudjom Lingpa lineage, reincarnation of renowned seventeenth-century treasure revealer Rigzin Longsel Nyingpo, and disciple of the great Tibetan female master Khandroma Kunzang Wangmo. In his first book, Jigme Wangdrak gives concrete advice on how to reorient your thinking--by embracing suffering, you can learn to see its roots, begin to work with it, and eventually le...t it go. This will allow you to fully savor happiness when it occurs. The first part of the book guides readers in recognizing and understanding suffering and happiness in their different forms. The second part of the book is dedicated to practice. Here, Jigme Wangdrak introduces the view and path of working directly with happiness and suffering. He conveys the steps, stages, and categories of mental exercises and practices that everyone--from beginner to VIP practitioner--can do to uproot the destructive effects of pain and sorrow that inevitably occur in life"--

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Subjects
Suffering > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Happiness > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) > Doctrines.
RELIGION / Buddhism / General.
Happiness > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) > Doctrines
Suffering > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Published
Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Jigme Wangdrak (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xv, 184 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781645473169
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part 1. View
  • 1. Timeless Wisdom
  • 2. Understanding Suffering
  • 3. Going Beyond the Eight Worldly Concerns
  • 4. True Happiness
  • 5. The Joy of Giving
  • 6. From Conditioned to Unconditioned Mind
  • 7. Waking Life Is a Dream
  • Part 2. Practice
  • 8. Introduction to Mind-Training Practice
  • 9. The Root of Happiness and Suffering
  • 10. Developing Endurance
  • 11. Meditation on No-Self
  • 12. The Practice of Tonglen
  • About the Author
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Happiness and suffering are not antithetical--they're inextricably linked, according to this lucid English-language debut from Tibetan Buddhist teacher Wangdrak. Instead of spending one's life avoiding pain, readers should harness the "power, energy, and spiritual growth" within suffering to make way for an "all-pervasive happiness" rooted in the mind's "pure true nature," and eschew the "grasping" that causes one to "shrink away from the totality of experiences." Contending that the attachment to self is the root of suffering, Wangdrak offers guidance on cultivating gratitude, using meditation to receive positive and negative stimuli with equanimity, and practicing "tonglen," wherein practitioners take on the suffering of others. Moving from meditation basics to thornier concepts such as making peace with physical illness, Wangdrak builds a convincing if challenging case for embracing pain as fuel for personal development and the source of a deeper contentment. Buddhists of all stripes will find value. (June)

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