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"What Is Meditation? " explains the Buddhist worldview and the
age-old practice it perfected to unfold our innate qualities of
compassion, self-acceptance, and inner peace. Rob Nairn gives
step-by-step instructions for beginning your own meditation
practice, including three simple exercises--"Bare Attention,"
"Remaining in the Present," and "Meditation Using Sound"--to help
get you started.
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: Explore the mind
through the cultivation of deep meditation states and expanded
consciousness Develop awareness of negative tendencies Use deep
sleep states and lucid dreaming to increase self-understanding as
well as to "train" oneself in how to die so that one is prepared
for when the time comes Confront and liberate oneself from fear of
death and the unknown
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