Wake up to Your Life : Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

by McLeod, Ken

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9780062516817

ISBN10:

0062516817

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Pub. Date:

1/5/2010

Publisher(s):

HarperCollins Publications

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Summary

The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now. In this informative guidebook to practical Buddhism you discover: How to live life with equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy How to cut through obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and self Tried-and-true methods for cultivating active attention with your body and mind.

Author Biography

Ken McLeod is widely respected as an authentic teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

The Mystery of Being

(18)

Buddhism in a Nutshell

(30)

Cultivating Attention

(42)

Dismantling Attachment to Conventional Success

(36)

Karma and Dismantling Belief

127

(80)

Dismantling Reactive Emotions

207

(36)

The Four Immeasurables

243

(70)

Mind Training

313

(40)

Insight and Dismantling Illusion

353

(58)

No Separation

411

(38)

Sources

449

(4)

Permissions

453

(2)

Guide to Meditations and Commentaries

455

(4)

Index

459