MIND OF CLEAR LIGHT: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously, by the Dalai Lama

MIND OF CLEAR LIGHT: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously

by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Join His Holiness the Dalai Lama on a spiritual journey as he shares the ways in which active contemplation of the deep nature of the mind--clear light--and its manifestation throughout our life and at death can reveal to us how to live realistically and meaningfully. Tapping this profound inner clarity, we are fully able to appreciate and enjoy our precious time while alive and advance on the path to enlightenment. Here, in Mind of Clear Light, this powerful life journey can begin.

"Whether you live a day, a week, a month, a year, make that time meaningful. Involve your thoughts in what is beneficial in the long run. The longer you live, the more beneficial it will be."--His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. The Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm. His Holiness vividly shows us how to prepare for death, the ultimate journey of transformation.

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born to a peasant family in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet in 1935, and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. Today, he is considered the world's foremost Buddhist leader. The exiled spiritual head of the Tibetan people and a Nobel Peace Laureate, he is a remarkable Buddhist teacher and scholar. In addition, he has also become a global spiritual leader, whose commitment to peace and nonviolence has been widely recognized, and whose message of universal iand individual responsibility has won worldwide admiration and acclaim. He travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and above all, world peace.