Find a new way of life and lasting peace by becoming Buddha that is, awakening to personal responsibility for our own lives and the world around us.

Buddhist masters say that we are in a Dark Age. Terrorist attacks, wars, economic failures and natural disasters have created an atmosphere of fear. Tibetan masters encourage us not to lose heart catastrophes have happened before and we have managed to overcome them.

Robert Sachs shows how Tibetan Buddhist teachings can have a real influence on our personal lives and equally on contemporary politics. He conveys traditional Buddhist teachings in a practical, readable style and shows the reader how they can help to cultivate the inner resources necessary to meet challenge and conflict both in themselves and in the world.

Becoming Buddha: Awakening the Wisdom and Compassion to Change Your World, Robert Sachs, Watkins Publications, 256 pages, $16.95

Following the death of one of his daughters, Robert Sachs was led into the study of the conscious dying practices as found in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and has worked as a social worker, bereavement counselor, and instructor for hospices as well as assisting many friends and private clients to die more peacefully and consciously. Along with his wife, Melanie, Robert has also pursued studies in Indian and Tibetan Ayurveda and their published works in this field are considered by such teachers as Dr Deepak Chopra to be the clearest and most usable texts available.

CONTENTS: Becoming Buddha
Dedication		vii
Preface by His Holiness the 14th Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche		ix
Foreword by Stephen Levine		xi
Prologue: All That You Can Be		xiii
Introduction: Possibility in Troubled Times		xvii
Chapter 1:	A Call to Action in a Dark Age	1
Chapter 2:	War and Buddhism	16
Chapter 3:	Why Bother? Revolutionizing the Mind	28
Chapter 4:	A Fine Mess: Handling the Truth	42
Chapter 5:	Intention: Planting the Seed of Action	50
Chapter 6:	Meditations and Mantras for the Conscious, Engaged Activist	73
Chapter 7:	The Power of Compassion	100
Chapter 8:	"The Wheel of Sharp Weapons"	118
Chapter 9:	The Conscious, Engaged Activist	133
Chapter 10:	Pockets of Light, Sources of Inspiration	193
Chapter 11:	A Conscious, Engaged Civilization	206
Chapter 12:	The Buddha at Peace	233
Appendix 1:	Statement by Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche	245
Appendix 2:	Essay on the 2008 American Revolution	247
Bibliography		251
Index		253