In this wonderful guide, respected teacher Ken McLeod deconstructs Tibetan Buddhism to make it a path accessible to the Western reader. With abundant anecdotal and illustrative material, he addresses a vast number of teachings, from the Four Noble Truths, through death and impermanence meditations, karma, mind training, and insight practices. Especially engaging and relevant to Western readers are the sections on dismantling attachment to conventional success and working with reactive emotions (anger, greed, desire, jealousy, and pride). The key to being fully alive and joyful in our lives, McLeod writes, is developing our natural capacity for attention and being fully present here and now. In this guide - which is a true encyclopedia - on practical Buddhism you will discover: • How to live life with equanimity, loving kindness, compassion and joy. • How to overcome obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and with one's own ego. • Proven and effective methods to cultivate active attention with the body and mind.
