Wake up to Your Life

A comprehensive meditation manual, Wake Up to Your Life covers all aspects of Mahayana practice as it is taught in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism, from beginning meditation up to and including mahamudra and dzogchen This contemporary guide begins with motivation for spiritual practice and then moves to basic attention, including shamatha and vipashyana, the contemplation of, death and impermanence, the teacher-student relationship, karma, the six realms and five elements, the four...
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A comprehensive meditation manual, Wake Up to Your Life covers all aspects of Mahayana practice as it is taught in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism, from beginning meditation up to and including mahamudra and dzogchen This contemporary guide begins with motivation for spiritual practice and then moves to basic attention, including shamatha and vipashyana, the contemplation of, death and impermanence, the teacher-student relationship, karma, the six realms and five elements, the four immeasurable of equanimity, loving kindness, compassion, and joy, Mahayana mind-training and taking and sending (tangled), insight, and living awake. McLeod's training under the first Kalu Rinpoche and two three-year retreats, as well as decades of teaching experience, make this book an authentic presentation of traditional teachings that have been thoroughly digested, and are now expressed in startlingly clear and incisive language for the Western mind.