Wake Up To Your Life:
Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
- Now available in audio book form, read by the author, Ken McLeod
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Hundreds of books on Buddhism have been published in recent years, but Wake Up To Your Life is one of the first written by a traditionally trained Western teacher to offer a detailed and well explained curriculum of practice. With deep insight, clear instructions, and entertaining stories, McLeod provides a comprehensive manual for a lifetime of spiritual work. Read by the author himself, the book is even clearer in audio form — a virtual course of private instruction by one of the senior teachers in America today.
"...eminently practical manual goes straight to the heart of what the Buddha taught." (Stephen Batchelor, author)
Beginning with the context and motivation for spiritual practice, McLeod covers basic topics such as the four noble truths, the three disciplines of morality, meditation, and understanding, and the cultivation of mindfulness. He continues with contemplations on death and impermanence, karma, reactive emotions, and loving kindness and compassion, leading up to the most profound practices of the Tibetan tradition — mind training, mahamudra and dzogchen.
"...a good helpful, compassionate, necessary book, and more valuable than a whole library of volumes telling us what we want to hear." (Yoga Journal)
Wake Up to Your Life is especially valuable as it makes explicit what has been hidden from or confusing to many practitioners. Regardless of tradition, those who struggle with practice and don't have the benefit of clear instruction will definitely benefit from McLeod’s pragmatic approach.
"...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)
Wake Up to Your Life 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.)
"...has illuminated the path for solitary individuals who want a long-lasting handbook to begin the journey toward wakefulness." (Publishers Weekly)
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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.
"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)
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.
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