Enlightenment is real, and you can attain it. The Truth about Enlightenment is a direct, accessible, and authentic account of the progressive spiritual insights along the Buddhist path--insights that reveal enlightenment itself.

If you've ever wanted to know what egolessness, emptiness, or nonduality really mean, how they differ from one another, and how to attain these and other core insights, The Truth about Enlightenment is a practical guidebook, written from direct personal experience, that will help these experiences come alive for you.

In simple, personal language, physician and longtime Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practitioner Fred H. Meyer, MD, describes each of the pivotal insights that lead to enlightenment. Drawing on his own life experiences, encounters with his teacher, the renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and teachings from great masters throughout the Buddhist canon, Meyer describes how these insights relate to one another, what makes them challenging, and how they represent a progressively unfolding realization of our own true nature.

Throughout, Meyer emphasizes that enlightenment is for everyone, and that the wholehearted aspiration to realize it is the only qualification we need.

The Truth About Enlightenment: How to Find Egolessness, Nonduality, and Wisdom on the Buddhist Path; Fred H. Meyer; Tsndr Dawa Publishing; Paperback; 172 pp; $9.99

Fred H. Meyer, MD, is a retired physician and longtime practitioner of Buddhism. He taught academic medicine at Louisiana State University before entering private practice in internal medicine and rheumatology in Fort Collins, Colorado, retiring in 2009. Dr. Meyer began his Dharma practice in the Soto Zen tradition under Dainin Katagiri Roshi. In 1980, he became a student of the seminal Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, living for two years at Trungpa Rinpoche's first practice center in North America and serving as a personal attendant to Trungpa Rinpoche until his passing in 1987. During his forty years as a Buddhist, Dr. Meyer has met and studied with many of the most important teachers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Katagiri Roshi, John Daido Loori, Taizan Maezumi Roshi, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. A senior student in the lineage of Shambhala Buddhism, he has received advanced transmissions in the Kagyu, Nyingma, and Shambhala traditions, and has practiced them for over four decades in both everyday meditation and solitary retreats. He is a founding member of the Fort Collins, CO, Shambhala Center, and has taught in residence in Fort Collins and Hilo, HI, for the past ten years. Dr. Meyer's prior books include In the Buddha's Realm: A Physician's Experiences with Chogyam Trungpa, A Modern-Day Buddha (2002), an account of his years as a physician and student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche; Don't Give Up Until You Do: From Mindfulness to Realization on the Buddhist Path (Llewellyn, 2012), an accessible introduction to key experiences on the Buddhist path; and Beyond Belief: Life on the Buddhist Path (2019), on how Buddhist insights and practices can address the fundamental problems of the human condition.