Present Fresh Wakefulness: A Meditation Manual on Nonconceptual Wisdom

by Chokyi Nyima

Present Fresh Wakefulness is more than a set of general instructions on how to practice, it is the quintessential advice of an experienced, living master on what he considers to be the absolute necessities today’s yogis to arrive at liberation and complete enlightenment.

We should know how to make the distinction between self existing wakefulness and dualistic mind. Believing that we are sustaining the natural state of mind while we are caught up with ordinary thinking is not much use. We need to identify the genuine, the authentic -- this is important. We need to identify that which is utterly empty, utterly naked, not confined to anything, totally clear and cognizant yet not fixated on anything.
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

In this series of teachings and conversations, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, a revered abbot, Tibetan meditation master and author of Union of Mahamudra & Dzogchen, Bardo Guidebook and Indisputable Truth, conveys the indispensable principles for arriving at the heart of Buddhist practice in his characteristic style, filled with humor, candor and wit.

Genres: Buddhism

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 2004

About the author

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (Tib.: chos kyi nyi ma), the eldest son of H.E. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, is held to be the seventh incarnation of the yogi Gar Drubchen, an emanation of Nāgārjuna.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the quintessential advice of an experienced living master for modern yogis to realize complete enlightenment.
One of the clearest most concise meditation manuals on non conceptual wisdom by the Tibetan Buddhist Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche.
Most Highly recommended!!!

[Ishmael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good nuggets of wisdom. Very repetitive (which is intentional by the author, as he states himself).

[Joe Fiala · Rating 5 out of 5]

So incredibly helpful. Thank you Rinpoche. Thank you Pema.