Living, Dreaming, Dying (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Rob Nairn | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

The
Tibetan
Book of the Dead
is
one of the best-known Tibetan Buddhist texts. It is also one of the most
difficult texts for Westerners to understand. In
Living,
Dreaming, Dying,
Rob
Nairn presents the first interpretation of this classic text using a modern
Western perspective, avoiding arcane religious terminology, keeping his
explanations grounded in everyday language. Nairn explores the concepts used in
this highly revered work and brings out their meaning and significance for our
daily life. He shows readers how the
Tibetan
Book of the Dead
can
help
us understand life and self as well as the dying process.

Living,
Dreaming, Dying
helps
readers to "live deliberately"—and confront death deliberately. One
thing that prevents us from doing that, according to Nairn, is our tendency to
react fearfully whenever change occurs. But if we confront our fear of change
and the unknown, we can learn to flow gracefully with the unfolding
circumstances of life rather than be at their mercy.

Of
course, change occurs throughout our life, but a period of transition also
occurs as we pass from the waking state into sleep, and likewise as we pass
into death. Therefore the author's teachings apply equally to living as well as
to dreaming and dying.

Through
meditation instructions and practical exercises, the author explains how to: