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Loving Life as It Is: A Buddhist Guide to Ultimate Happiness
Practical Buddhist wisdom and mindful methods for finding the silver lining in all circumstances—from a remarkable new voice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Chakung Jigme Wangdrak gives concrete advice on how to reorient your thinking when faced with the challenges, mess, and chaos that inevitably occur in life. By embracing pain and suffering, you can learn to see their roots, begin to work with them, and eventually let them go. This will create joy and ease, allowing you to fully savor happiness.
In clear language, Jigme Wangdrak conveys the steps, stages, and categories of mental exercises and methods that everyone—from beginner to experienced practitioner and non-Buddhists—can use to train their mind toward
Take happiness and suffering as the pathCultivate courage, gratitude, and compassionPractice contentment (not complacency)Recognize outer and inner obstacles when faced with challenging situationsDispel self-grasping to reduce suffering Develop patience and tolerance
A true Buddhist master and unique lineage holder, Jigme Wangdrak offers a roadmap to freedom with teachings that will benefit your spiritual practice and daily life—he shows you how to love your life as it already is!
Chakung Jigme Wangdrak gives concrete advice on how to reorient your thinking when faced with the challenges, mess, and chaos that inevitably occur in life. By embracing pain and suffering, you can learn to see their roots, begin to work with them, and eventually let them go. This will create joy and ease, allowing you to fully savor happiness.
In clear language, Jigme Wangdrak conveys the steps, stages, and categories of mental exercises and methods that everyone—from beginner to experienced practitioner and non-Buddhists—can use to train their mind toward
Take happiness and suffering as the pathCultivate courage, gratitude, and compassionPractice contentment (not complacency)Recognize outer and inner obstacles when faced with challenging situationsDispel self-grasping to reduce suffering Develop patience and tolerance
A true Buddhist master and unique lineage holder, Jigme Wangdrak offers a roadmap to freedom with teachings that will benefit your spiritual practice and daily life—he shows you how to love your life as it already is!
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 11, 2024
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December 17, 2024
A good reminder to love life as it is.. not what you wanted to be or what it could be..
But to love life just as it is today in this moment.. with flaws and challenges.. and sprinkles of happiness and joy everyday
Highlights from the book 📖
May this lightness, this open-heartedness be yours
May all beings be unconditionally happy and free from suffering
May the teachings and practice in this book inspire you in your journey and may many beings benefit from your compassion
Taking happiness and suffering as the pot requires the noblest aspiration, a kind and courageous heart, and skillfully developed endurance.
Suffering can be dispelled and happiness can be increased
Compassion, loving kindness, and caring will increase giving birth to a sense of fruition in life
We can each become a powerful warrior of mind
Courage to stay causes the innate instinct of compassion to grow and we develop the strength to step into any challenges that befall us This is the fruition of warriorship of the mind.
Warrior - a powerful, courageous, fearless being
Through the power of facing suffering, taking on the misery of others, we build strength of heart and courage developing of warrior like power
Best to fearlessly face what we previously ran from
The power of this practice is that at the right time you will be able to lighten other's pain and sorrow
Eagle clinging weakens you the more you seek to shield yourself from anything that is uncomfortable the weaker you become
The more bothered you are by even the slightest discomfort - you become oversensitive easily irritated and easily offended
Your compassion can be as fast as the ocean which is filled with beings in distress
You can become bolder and more confident
You become more courageous to accept and take on suffering
May I take all their agony away from them so they don't have to experience it
Imagine you're taking all the suffering onto yourself and giving them all of your happiness and joy
You must first do the work on yourself and through that you might influence others
You cannot begin to convey the teachings and practices by trying to change other people or by telling them that they should also be interested in the same thing you are interested in
This change is something that your partner, friends and relations can witness
You will become easier to get along with and your mind will become more flexible
Heart opening exercise of compassion expands your consciousness to realize that you have the same needs and desires as everyone
When cultivated with mutual caring understanding and respect human relationship can be one of the most amazing gifts in this life This is how you can create well-being for people in your life and at the world at large
Try shifting away from a self-absorbed perspective to one of being in dynamic relation with another
When you struggle with someone you might ask - what do we both need?
If a problem can be fixed why be unhappy about it? If it cannot be fixed being unhappy is futile
If the suffering cannot be fixed and there is nothing you can do to change the situation then what is the point of worrying and stressing over it?
Wisdom often comes through life experience
If I have something I'm happy if I do not have anything I'm happy
If you reach your dream another is right behind it and our ending cycle of wanting and hoping
Why do I get my feelings hurt and feel wronged?
The greatest of all riches is the mind of contentment
I'm content with whatever comes my way whatever I have
These small blessings around you can bring a new found joy
When we are content we are easily pleased and fulfilled
Right where you are you are enough just as you are; Open and relax into just the way you are
But to love life just as it is today in this moment.. with flaws and challenges.. and sprinkles of happiness and joy everyday
Highlights from the book 📖
May this lightness, this open-heartedness be yours
May all beings be unconditionally happy and free from suffering
May the teachings and practice in this book inspire you in your journey and may many beings benefit from your compassion
Taking happiness and suffering as the pot requires the noblest aspiration, a kind and courageous heart, and skillfully developed endurance.
Suffering can be dispelled and happiness can be increased
Compassion, loving kindness, and caring will increase giving birth to a sense of fruition in life
We can each become a powerful warrior of mind
Courage to stay causes the innate instinct of compassion to grow and we develop the strength to step into any challenges that befall us This is the fruition of warriorship of the mind.
Warrior - a powerful, courageous, fearless being
Through the power of facing suffering, taking on the misery of others, we build strength of heart and courage developing of warrior like power
Best to fearlessly face what we previously ran from
The power of this practice is that at the right time you will be able to lighten other's pain and sorrow
Eagle clinging weakens you the more you seek to shield yourself from anything that is uncomfortable the weaker you become
The more bothered you are by even the slightest discomfort - you become oversensitive easily irritated and easily offended
Your compassion can be as fast as the ocean which is filled with beings in distress
You can become bolder and more confident
You become more courageous to accept and take on suffering
May I take all their agony away from them so they don't have to experience it
Imagine you're taking all the suffering onto yourself and giving them all of your happiness and joy
You must first do the work on yourself and through that you might influence others
You cannot begin to convey the teachings and practices by trying to change other people or by telling them that they should also be interested in the same thing you are interested in
This change is something that your partner, friends and relations can witness
You will become easier to get along with and your mind will become more flexible
Heart opening exercise of compassion expands your consciousness to realize that you have the same needs and desires as everyone
When cultivated with mutual caring understanding and respect human relationship can be one of the most amazing gifts in this life This is how you can create well-being for people in your life and at the world at large
Try shifting away from a self-absorbed perspective to one of being in dynamic relation with another
When you struggle with someone you might ask - what do we both need?
If a problem can be fixed why be unhappy about it? If it cannot be fixed being unhappy is futile
If the suffering cannot be fixed and there is nothing you can do to change the situation then what is the point of worrying and stressing over it?
Wisdom often comes through life experience
If I have something I'm happy if I do not have anything I'm happy
If you reach your dream another is right behind it and our ending cycle of wanting and hoping
Why do I get my feelings hurt and feel wronged?
The greatest of all riches is the mind of contentment
I'm content with whatever comes my way whatever I have
These small blessings around you can bring a new found joy
When we are content we are easily pleased and fulfilled
Right where you are you are enough just as you are; Open and relax into just the way you are
September 6, 2024
I'm not Buddhist but I thought this book might help me in my struggles with mental illness so I gave it a try. It's easy enough for a complete layman like me to understand and I think the meditations will be helpful. It repeats a lot and sometimes the meditations are not explained as well as I'd like, so I would give 3.5 stars.
October 8, 2024
A simple practical guide to Buddhism. Well organized and logical flow.
February 19, 2025
can be difficult to read, but has definitely increased my understanding of meditation, Tibetan Buddhist practice, and its value
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