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Living Fully: Finding Joy in Every Breath
by Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche

Published: 2012-01-24
Hardcover : 296 pages
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We all aspire to live fully and freely in the moment.

In Living Fully, Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche reveals timeless wisdom that can help us fulfill this deepest aspiration. Each succinct teaching is a luminous jewel, an invaluable guide to actualizing our innate potential and breathing with ...
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Introduction

We all aspire to live fully and freely in the moment.

In Living Fully, Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche reveals timeless wisdom that can help us fulfill this deepest aspiration. Each succinct teaching is a luminous jewel, an invaluable guide to actualizing our innate potential and breathing with joy and ease.

Today, with so many struggling with financial, relationship, and career challenges, Living Fully: Finding Joy in Every Breath is a timely prescription. Rinpoche offers the tools we need to experience genuine inner freedom, uncorrupted by endless craving for something better. Topics include beginning with a pure motivation, the preciousness of breath, healing oneself and others, the essence of meditation, and spontaneous fulfillment.

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche has written the book that our troubled age has been yearning for. It is a treasure trove of heartfelt advice on how to seize the moment and live with kindness and understanding. Rinpoche's teachings gently beckon us home to the purity and simplicity of our true nature. At peace with ourselves and at ease with the world, we can discover what it means to live our lives fully.

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Those who continually experience the highest, richest qualities of their being are known as enlightened ones. The more we can integrate with the essential richness of our being, the more fully we can live. Then we can truly enjoy this precious life and celebrate each and every moment. Ultimately, there is no difference between the Buddha and ourselves. The Buddha actualized his enlightened qualities, and we too have the same potential. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

How do we recognize our potential?

How do we bring about the quality of innocence in order to view the world with a fresh eye?

How much should we rely on worldly possessions?

Notes From the Author to the Bookclub

Note from author Shyalpa Rinpoche:

“I am happy to share my new book, Living Fully, Finding Joy in Every Breath with you. I seek to fulfill the wishes of my teachers by sharing my understanding of Buddhist teachings and practices with spiritual aspirants around the world. It is my heartfelt wish that these sacred teachings help to lead us toward a more meaningful and fulfilling life. The more we can integrate with the essential richness of our being, the more fully we can live. Then we can truly enjoy this precious life and celebrate each and every moment!”

— His Eminence Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche

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