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Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation
of Tibetan meditation masters, whose teachings have touched people of
all faiths around the world. His first book, The Joy of Living, was a New York Times bestseller hailed as compelling, readable, and informed (Buddhadharma)
and praised by Richard Gere, Lou Reed, and Julian Schnabel for its
clarity, wit, and unique insight into the relationship between science
and Buddhism.
His new book, Joyful Wisdom, addresses the
timely and timeless problem of anxiety in our everyday lives. From the
2,500-year-old perspective of Buddhism, Yongey Mingyur writes, every
chapter in human history could be described as an age of anxiety. The
anxiety we feel now has been part of the human condition for
centuries. So what do we do? Escape or succumb? Both routes inevitably
lead to more complications and problems in our lives. Buddhism,he
says, offers a third option. We can look directly at the disturbing
emotions and other problems we experience in our lives as
stepping-stones to freedom. Instead of rejecting them or surrendering
to them, we can befriend them, working through them to reach an
enduring authentic experience of our inherent wisdom, confidence,
clarity, and joy.
Divided into three parts like a traditional Buddhist text, Joyful Wisdom identifies
the sources of our unease, describes methods of meditation that enable
us to transform our experience into deeper insight, and applies these
methods to common emotional, physical, and personal problems. The
result is a work at once wise, anecdotal, funny, informed, and graced
with the author's irresistible charm.
8 Audio Cds, 9 hours
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