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In love with the world : a monk's journey through the bardos of living and dying / by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov.

Yongey Mingyur, Rinpoche, 1976- (author.). Tworkov, Helen, (author.).

Summary:

"A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it"-- Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780525512530
Physical Description: xvi, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Who are you? -- Acknowledge the wave but stay with the ocean -- Born with a silver spoon -- Impermanence and death -- Letting wisdom arise -- What will you do in the bardo? -- Lessons from Milarepa -- Varanasi rail station -- Emptiness, not nothingness -- If you see something, say something -- A visit from panic, my old friend -- A day at the ghats -- Of sleep and dreams -- Learning to swim -- Memento mori -- Where the Buddha died -- What is your happy dream? -- Coming through darkness -- A chance encounter -- Naked and clothed -- No picking, no choosing -- Working with pain -- The four rivers of natural suffering -- Recalling the bardos -- Giving everything away -- When death is good news -- Awareness never dies -- When the cup shatters -- In the bardo of becoming.