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Rebel Buddha: On The Road To Freedom (2010)

by Dzogchen Ponlop(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590308743 (ISBN13: 9781590308745)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Shambhala

review 1: Learnt more about Buddha and... generally I feel the road to enlightenment to a rather painful one. You must struggle (with your mind) to be free. Like the book says, some of us turn to more convenient avenues- the one proposed here requires a very focused intensity and discipline in order to shape and awaken your mind. No shit this is no mean feat T.T It's really hard to detach from emotions, and worse, 'self'. I feel like I will be stuck at the stage of consciousness forever. Double edged sword- when you tell the working class they are exploited and awakened their consciousness, but in the end fail to free them, look at who is to continue living but now with the knowledge that they are having the short end of the stick. You will never be able to shake this awareness off... more. So is it better to know, or is ignorance truly bliss?
review 2: Don't let the title scare you into thinking that it is just "Pop-Buddhism". It definitely is, but it is much more as well. I almost didn't read the book because I thought it would be repackaged Buddhism for yuppies or worse "Buddhism-made-hip". Which in some ways it is but then I had the other thought "does it have to be old and obscure to be authentic Buddhism?" To me that is an equally obnoxious thought to disregard or discredit a message simply because it isn't old or difficult to understand.This does make Buddhism more accessible to the modern Western reader. The author is quick to make the distinction of core Buddhist concepts and cultural Buddhism and how one is universally applicable and the other is culture specific. Americans don't need to shave their heads and wear Tibetan Buddhist robes to understand to experience it.Buddhism is about diving into the present and living fully, which can be achieved through meditation to help focus the mind and clear out all the mental pollution that keeps our minds running at insanely fast pace with no breaks jumping from past to future to past to future and stressing about events that are not even here. less

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