The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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by Sogyal Rinpoche

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What a judgmental book. He spends a lot of time generalizing about how meaningless it is to have goals like "finding a job" and "going on holiday" or "whom to invite and christmas." Why are those such trivial things to do? Everything we do in live carries spiritual weight, but he completely writes off the entirety of western civilization describing our lives as "petty" and "repetitive, wasted"

Rebecca.Meow western civilization IS PETTY

can we treat other as you you?

Yen you are you, they are u and you are them. We are one. A million pieces fragments of you. This is only my point of view.

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The prayer for a dead person during the next 49 days after death?

Hello Jennifer, I wonder how you like the book? I owned it once but never brought myself about to read it.

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