Loving Life as It Is (Wangdrak 2024)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

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 happiness:

Take happiness and suffering as the path

Cultivate courage, gratitude, and compassion

Practice contentment (not complacency)

Recognize outer and inner obstacles when faced with challenging situations

Dispel 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! (Source: Shambhala Publications)

Citation

Wangdrak, Chakung Jigme. Loving Life as It Is: A Buddhist Guide to Ultimate Happiness. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2024.

Forward by Anam Thubten ix
Preface xiii

- Part One: View
1. Timeless Wisdom 3
2. Understanding Suffering 9
3. Going Beyond the Eight Worldly Concerns 27
4. True Happiness 37
5. The Joy of Giving 57
6. From Conditioned to Unconditioned Mind 77
7. Waking Life Is a Dream 95

- Part Two: Practice
8. Introduction to Mind-Training Practice 113
9. The Root of Happiness and Suffering 137
10. Developing Endurance 145
11. Meditation on No-Self 163
12. The Practice of Tonglen 173

About the Author 184