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About the Book:
In 2013, author Shang Longrik Gyatso Rinpoche began writing daily articles online touching on issues related to everyday life. Many of these articles were repeatedly reposted on hundreds of Chinese-language Buddhist websites. This volume is a compilation of the most consequential of these pieces, interspersed with the works of the 20th-century pioneering Asian photojournalist Lang Jingshan.
Shang Rinpoche has been spreading Buddhist teachings for more than 30 years to students in 25 countries. His talented writing and storytelling style pragmatically weaves Buddhism into everyday life, inspiring readers to look for the key to awareness in their own lives.
The author uses his vast experience in Buddhist practice to show how to enter deeply into those difficult emotions and experiences that we all encounter; he clearly expresses how the road to liberation is also the source of happiness. He uses a kind of spiritual poetry to help readers see past their negative habits and the confusion that arises in the midst of suffering, becoming a guiding light to those lost in the maze of afflictions. The thought-provoking questions addressed in each article leave a deep impression.
The author gives guidance in confronting life’s pressures through simple observation of emotions and negative thinking. With humility, diligence, humor and compassion, the reader is made aware of their own thoughts, the negative is transformed into the positive and we are turned away from life’s failures to see more clearly life’s bright successes.
The book reveals the gem of Buddhism as it exists within everyday modern life: gain and loss, frustration and stress give rise to attachments and afflictions, yet we can find insight through a practice of deep reflection and the wisdom inherent in Buddhism. Through the problems and phenomena that people encounter the moment we open our eyes in the morning, the author points to the core of the issues, aiding readers to begin searching for the key of awareness in each moment and in every thought. Although life is like a Ferris wheel, continually bringing us up only to pull us down again, moment-to-moment awareness is the ever-present motivation that can lead us to enlightenment.
How can we transform the negativity that can overwhelm the heart and mind? How can people manage the endless surge of afflictions? How can people steer clear of unnecessary disturbances? Controlling rising emotions with awareness is like trying to catch the reins of a wild horse.
Psychological problems are growing beyond the curative ability of modern treatments. People need to witness the original nature of emotions with humility and courageously take responsibility for all their failings. With an open attitude, we must correct our thinking and our behavior. Shang Rinpoche tells us that most people get caught up in the swell of emotions due to an inability to observe attachments and revolving endlessly in their old habits. The purpose of this book then is to bring, through the graceful prose and analogies of Shang Rinpoche, the golden key of awareness to its readers.
- Author: Shang Rinpoche
- Brand: Bhagawan Publishing
- Language: English
- Format: Flexibound
- ISBN: 9789869186087
