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Advice On Dying: And Living a Better Life [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Author), Jeffrey, Ph.D. Hopkins (Reader)
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Buddhist scholar and professor Hopkins studied intimately with the 14th Dalai Lama to complete this volume on spiritual preparation for death and dying. The book draws upon the 17th-century poem by the First Panchen Lama, which focused on Buddhist techniques for mastering the fear of death and finding spiritual enlightenment through the "stages of dying." The 17 eloquent stanzas begin with ideas about awareness of life's cycle ("May we extract the meaningful essence of this life-support/Without being distracted by the senseless affairs of this life"), and move through each level of consciousness in anticipation of death, or rebirth ("May we be reborn with the supreme life-support of a Tantra practitioner using the sky"). The Dalai Lama elaborates upon the verse with Indian and Tibetan textual and oral traditions; the rather esoteric poem thus leads to more concrete advice, such as "You have to practice morality, concentrated meditation, and wisdom on a daily basis." Fear disappears when practitioners learn to embrace awareness of death, the Dalai Lama says, and through such insight, they are able to more fully take advantage of the given life.
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In this text, the Dalai Lama advises us to gain familiarity with the process and practices of death so that when we are physically weak, our minds can still be focused in the right direction, and in the right manner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Face death now., Nov 15 2010
This review is from: Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life (Hardcover)
Those of you out there who haven't thought about DEATH because you are the self-centered "immortal teens," middle-age busy, too darn fearful, or too old to really care, GET THIS BOOK! As someone who has had near-death experience, I can safely say there is precious little out there (except for opinions and garbage) that can give you a real picture of death and what you need to do to psychologically prepare for it. As Master Samael Aun Weor wrote: "Death is the crown of life." "This life disappears only very quickly, like something written in water with a stick." - Buddha. May death give you an easy ride.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Much concentrated wisdom here, July 6 2003
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Venkat Raghavan Rangamani (Boxborough, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life (Hardcover)
The Buddhist preoccupation with death almost borders on the morbid. In fact the awareness of your impermanence and the inevitability of your own death is the cornerstone of the whole religion. There is almost no concept of an omipotent, omnipresent God and the focus is really on attaining an ever present, compassionate and wisdom filled state of mind. This is what draws me to Buddhism.

This book by Jeffrey Hopkins is a translation of the Dalai Lama's interpretation of a poem by the first Panchen Lama. The poem is quite cryptic by itself but the Dalai Lama's interpretation and Hopkins's skillful translation draw out the many gems of knowledge embedded in its seventeen stanzas. Iam convinced after reading this book that the Tibetans knew more about death and rebirth than anyone else.

In an age of self help books to fix every problem of your life in isolation, this book addresses the fundamental source of all our anxieties, fears and unhappiness. The Dalai Lama states boldly and simply that the only good way to live life to its fullest is to meditate on our own impermanence and impending mortality until we can accept it fully and be prepared to utilize our deaths to propel us and other sentient beings in the path of enlightenment.

We have no way of verifying the correctness of the descriptions of the several stages of death, the intermediate state and rebirth but this book is filled with so much compassion and wisdom that all that is said there can only be true.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Dec 23 2002
This review is from: Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life (Hardcover)
His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has done it again! He has given us a statement of simple spirituality, efficacious for both the practicing Buddhist and the non-Buddhist, alike. Although many of his concepts may seem mysterious, or even ineffable, to the non-Buddhist, his basic advice is sound. His Holiness calls upon all of us to meditate upon our inevitable deaths, and thereby to more fully appreciate this life, and facilitate our passage into the next. That's good counsel no matter what your religion!
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