Loving Life as It Is

Practical Buddhist wisdom and mindful methods for everyone to embrace suffering and find true happiness from a remarkable new voice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Chakung Jigme Wangdrak gives concrete advice on how to reorient your thinking when faced with the challenges, mess, and chaos that inevitably occur in life. Born and trained in eastern Tibet and the unique holder of the Dudjom Lingpa lineage, Jigme Wangdrak’s authentic Tibetan Buddhist teachings will benefit all readers navigating our unprecedented times. By embracing pain and suffering, you can learn to see their roots, begin to work with them, and eventually let them go. This will create joy and ease, allowing you to fully savor happiness.
    The first part of the book guides readers in recognizing and understanding suffering and happiness in their many forms. The second part is dedicated to practice. Jigme Wangdrak introduces the view and path of working directly with happiness and suffering. In clear language, he conveys the steps, stages, and categories of mental exercises and methods that everyone—from beginner to experienced practitioner and non-Buddhists—can use to train their mind:

• Take happiness and suffering as the path
• Cultivate courage, gratitude, and compassion
• Practice contentment (not complacency)
• Recognize outer and inner obstacles when faced with challenging situations
• Dispel self-grasping to reduce suffering 
• Develop patience and tolerance

A true Buddhist master, Jigme Wangdrak offers a roadmap to freedom with teachings that will benefit your spiritual practice and daily life—he shows you how to love your life as it already is!