Chapter Five of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which gives a detailed presentation of meditation, was published separately by Harper Collins under the title Meditation, ISBN 0-06-251114-9 This book deepened my compassion and gave me a tool that is invaluable..I am so grateful I found it.

As far as I’m concerned, the spiritual experience is like a diamond, and the various religious approaches are its facets. They all talk essentially about the same thing, but the human urge for separation and conflict has roughened the edges of each somewhat so that they don’t fit together as harmoniously as they should, to the point where they often seem more like competing businesses than reflections of the same divine truth. One of the most profound learnings in my personal life came from Sogyal Rinpoche’s book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying based on the Bardo Thodol (in Tibetan) or the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The realization of “each day we are born and each night we die again,” makes it easier to let go of the past and start the evolution process. No one is asking of you to fly in the faces of these emotions , just to cast doubt upon your shallow thinking-patterns and unquestioned beliefs. The Tibetan Book of the Dead tells us what to do about it. It tells us how to achieve liberation in the moment of death and fulfil our potential as spiritually awakened beings, as Buddhas. This profoundly appealing promise is at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist beliefs about life and death. Padmasambhava told his exceptional disciple that the book’s message was not for that time, but for some future time, so Yeshe Tsogyal hid the text in a cave high on a mountain in central Tibet. Padmasambhava then prophesised that the text would be rediscovered more than 500 years later, when it would be needed by the people of Tibet and the world.We advise that you should snatch this book because it most definitely deserves a place on your bookshelf. About Sogyal Rinpoche learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.” Rinpoche, Sogyal (2002). The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 13. ISBN 0-06-250834-2.

As long as you cultivate stillness, you may enjoy peace, but whenever your mind is a little bit disturbed, deluded thoughts will set in again.” All of us believe we have time and take it for granted that as we age we will get time to change and evolve. But the truth is no one knows the hour they will cease to breathe. To put this in perspective… Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.” What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.”When I started reading, I was unaware of the numerous abuse allegations against Sogyal Rinpoche, extensively documented and largely substantiated in the independent investigatory report conducted on behalf of his own Rigpa charity in 2018: https://www.rigpa.org/independent-inv....

According to Daniel Goleman, Rinpoche was already planning to write a book on living and dying in the late 1970s. [2] In 1983, he met Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Kenneth Ring and other figures in the caring professions and near-death research, and they encouraged him to develop his work in opening up the Tibetan teachings on death and helping the dying. Rinpoche continued to teach throughout the world. Then, in 1989 in Nepal, Rinpoche met Andrew Harvey and invited him to help on the project. [3] Writing process [ edit ] If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.”Sogyal Rinpoche’s acclaimed spiritual classic is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings ever written.

People of eastern origin will not find much difficulty in comprehending the ideology of this book because they have the inherent virtue of coexisting in this world. But the author made this book such a way that anyone can understand this sacred things without embedding themselves into Buddhism.

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of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche An excellent book which doesn't have anything to do with religion Buddhism but everything with compassion and humanity with which it shows how can we transform ourselves and this world while living our life and even after that. Its emergence or rediscovery at the time of the bubonic plague, and the Buddhist promise it holds of liberation from the cycle of rebirth and suffering, made it the most sought after text in the medieval Buddhist world. Its depiction of death and dying offered guidance in a time when human beings felt under siege by plague and conflict.