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Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy Paperback – April 13, 2015

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In Awakening the Luminous Mind, meditation teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides you to find refuge within instead of searching for support outside of yourself. Using the heart instructions of Dawa Gyaltsen, an 8th-century Tibetan meditation master, as a vehicle to guide contemplative practice, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche opens your eyes to the gifts hidden in your ordinary experiences.

The meditations presented in the book and on the accompanying audio download provide a direct way to meet the challenges of life as we encounter them. Fully incorporating these practices into daily life will help you open and transform your perceived limitations into unlimited possibilities. They will help you dissolve self-doubt and self-judgment, and discover the wisdom and light inherent within you in every moment.

Awakening the Luminous Mind completes a series of three books that present meditation instructions and practices to help readers discover the treasury of the natural mind.
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the ancient teachings, arts, sciences, language, and literature of Tibet and Zhang Zhung. He is a highly respected teacher to students around the world and has authored the books Awakening the Sacred Body; Tibetan Sound Healing; Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind; The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep; Healing with Form, Energy, and Light; and Wonders of the Natural Mind. Website: www.ligmincha.org

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hay House Inc.; Pap/Psc edition (April 13, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401949533
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401949532
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.42 x 8 inches
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Mark Simkin
5.0 out of 5 stars An uncomplicated path to Bliss
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2012
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In my experience Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the best of the Tibetan Buddhist masters teaching in English. He has a wonderful ability to give us the essence of the Dzogchen direct method without a lot of jargon and complicated language and philisophical abstraction - something that I probably won't be able to altogether avoid in this review, but I'll do my best. The techniques presented in this book, as in all his works, are simple and direct. As I understand it the method is as follows: find the stillness within the body, the silence in speech, and the spaciousness within the Heart-Mind, and you can abide in the Bliss of natural essence, that which we always are both beyond and within all manifest phenomena. Rinpoche takes us through 5 meditations that help us experience that 1. Our perception of phenomena is a function of our own mental conditioning and has no inherent reality (Vision is Mind) 2. Our mental-emotional constructs are formed from and of Mind, which is essentially beyond all conditioning (Empty), no matter what form it assumes (Mind is Empty) 3. The emptiness or "qualitylessness" of Mind is imbuded with and pervaded by a Luminous Awareness or Presence that is Consciousness itself (Emptiness is Clear Light) 4. This Awareness/Consciousness/Presence is one with and not separate from the unconditioned ground of being from which all manifestation arises (Clear Light is Union) 5. The inherent quality of this union of Clear Light and Emptiness, and our experience when we abide in this Union, is Great Bliss (Union is Great Bliss). Our access to this Great Bliss is simply through the portal of stillness/silence/spaciousness that can be found in all experience. The book is accompanied by a CD of guided meditations, available as MP3 downloads for the Kindle Version. If you can achieve the realizations taught in this book then Peace and Joy are yours. Suffice it to say this is a great book!
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Lady of K
5.0 out of 5 stars great book but kindle version doesn't include the crucial guided meditations
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2023
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This book and its teaching is fantastic. I have experience in this kind of meditation, but this book teaches a very quick and effective way to get to a deep meditation state. My main issue is that the kindle doesn't include the crucial guided meditations. You might get them with the audiobook. I had access to them through a course I am taking but I would have not benefited as much if I had only the kindle book
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Christian Florez
5.0 out of 5 stars One stop guide for all practitioners!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015
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This is easily one of the best dharma books I have ever read. It's incredibly simple and direct, to the point. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche has an amazing way of knowing exactly where you objections will be, how your mind will wrestle with the material, how you might feel that he is over simplifying matters or how your ego might trick itself. Then, with the finesse that few other masters have, he dismantles all your fears and cuts to the root of the issue. This is a one stop practice guide for me that I constantly refer to when I get lost in my path and need some simple words that will remind me of the view. This profound simplicity of this book inspired me to purchase almost everything he's ever written, which is written with a similar lucidity. The steps in this book can be followed by anyone, yet they will have a tremendous impact on your life. I can't recommend this book enough, it might be all you ever need to have a completely fruitful spiritual practice.
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Blue Dog
5.0 out of 5 stars This is good
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014
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I really like this book.

My main take away is that it is worthwhile to investigate and explore lucid dreaming, not because of cool experiences, but because by learning to bring enough ordinary consciousness to the sleep state and wake up in the dream, that you can then better learn how to awake in the dream state we call "awake".

Of course, the author believes that our normal waking state is fundamentally the same as our dream state, except that our sensory perception when awake are more orderly and cohesive that the random sensory burps and hiccups of the sleep state.

I also find it helpful to experiment with lucid dreaming and the non-physical nature of that state. For example, you don't have to figure out how to move your legs to get somewhere in a dream state; all you need to do it wish to be someplace and you are. Or, if you think "gee, it would be nice to have a hammer right now" and then you have one. Very cool, and somehow liberating fom the material world we, as embodied consciousnesses, inhabit.
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Bodhidharma
5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes less is more
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2020
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It's hard for ego to accept how simple deep practice can be. Ego doesn't thrive off of simplicity, but wants more and more complicated practices and theories to keep itself busy.

The teachings in here are direct and profound and work. You can save yourself a lot of time and unnecessary effort by engaging this book and the guided meditations on the CD wholeheartedly.

Maintain naked awareness of infinite space at all times. Recognize & appreciate the warmth/bliss that spontaneously and effortlessly arises from this awareness of space/openness. Refresh your commitment to this practice daily and gradually develop an indestructible confidence and trust in the changeless qualities that constitute your Being.

The last paragraph is too complicated the practice is simpler than that. Once you get to know intimately each word in 'Clear Light' just let that be your mantra and all falls into place naturally without effort.
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Henry Site
5.0 out of 5 stars I believe this book is pointing towards enlightenment.
Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2023
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This is a well written description book with some nice additional meditation downloads about stillness, silence and space.... our True Self.
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Zubin
5.0 out of 5 stars Awareness
Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 10, 2024
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Ah… as if veils of misunderstanding have been cleared. 💛🙏🏽💛 My gratitude to Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche… his words have opened the way so that years of practice fall more deeply into place. 💛🙏🏽💛
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DB
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2022
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This is the best book on dzogchen practice available in my opinion (although obviously I haven't read them all). It keeps practice informal, i.e. to be carried out in daily life. The simplicity is wonderful. You will be introduced to the Inner Refuge, and the 3 Doors through which it is accessed. You will use the experience of stillness, silence and spaciousness, to help you come to terms with your physical and mental problems. This book gives one a feeling of optimism; that there is some 'good news' that things don't have to be the way they are. I heartily recommend this wise book to all people looking for peace in their life.
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Lily
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good and easy to read
Reviewed in Japan on April 17, 2023
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Very good and easy to read
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Cliente Kindle
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome master, and awesome book
Reviewed in Brazil on September 24, 2014
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The book is really good. The text explains the practices, and there are guided meditations in audio (available for free download).
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