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Wake Up To Your Life:
Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
Written by Ken McLeod, this book is a compilation of the meditation methods at Unfettered Mind. This book is the basic curriculum for individuals and numerous practice-study groups around the country. (See Wake Up to Your Life groups.)
- "...a good helpful, compassionate, necessary book, and more valuable than a whole library of volumes telling us what we want to hear." (Yoga Journal)
- "...eminently practical manual goes straight to the heart of what the Buddha taught." (Stephen Batchelor, author)
About the Book
Most of us live behind a wall of illusion. Wake Up to Your Life gives us all the tools we need to "dismantle" that wall. Readers will learn to move out of the reactive patterns that create suffering and curb true freedom by using meditations and reflections that point the way to wisdom, awareness, compassion, and inner strength. Each meditation is described in detail and is accompanied by a lucid commentary on its meaning and value.
- "...remains rooted securely in the practical immediacy of direct experience and hews closely to the time-tested methods and teaching of Tibetan masters through the centuries." (LA Times)
- "...has illuminated the path for solitary individuals who want a long-lasting handbook to begin the journey toward wakefulness." (Publishers Weekly)
Using everyday language, stories, and examples accessible to westerners, Wake Up to Your Life presents the Buddha's original teachings separate from the cultural context of religious ritual and belief. Highlighted with quotes from thinkers as diverse as Mulla Nasrudin, Samuel Beckett, Yogi Berra, Albert Einstein, Kalu Rinpoche, James Baldwin, and Bob Dylan, this authoritative guide offers a warm and engaging approach to awakening our true self and walking the liberating path of mindful and compassionate living.
- "Throughout this book's 450 pages, McLeod distills the nature and purpose of Buddhism to make it accessible for any newcomer without dumbing it down." (Yoga Journal on-line edition, click here for the full review)
- "...the most detailed discussion that exists in describing exactly how to work emotional patterning which, as the Tibetans pointed out, is the major barrier to the realization of Mind." (Dan Jorgensen, meditation teacher)
You can buy a hard copy of the book now, on-line, by clicking here.
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