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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The book detailed Rinpoche's intimate account of his three-year journey away from his monastery and the near-death experience that resulted in life-changing wisdom. The conversation suggested the book explores the concept of 'dying before you die' by letting go of attachments, which the author felt was a bigger hook than Rinpoche's near-death experience alone. The title reflects the sentiment that after stripping away attachments, what is left is love for the world.
It's called In Love With The World, it's just out.
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The book detailed Rinpoche's intimate account of his three-year journey away from his monastery and the near-death experience that resulted in life-changing wisdom. The conversation suggested the book explores the concept of 'dying before you die' by letting go of attachments, which the author felt was a bigger hook than Rinpoche's near-death experience alone. The title reflects the sentiment that after stripping away attachments, what is left is love for the world.
It's called In Love With The World, it's just out.
He initially, as she tells the story, he initially wanted to write pretty much all about his near death experience and talk about what he saw there to break it all down.
I have to say that the beginning of the retreat and his whole reason for leaving was a much bigger hook for me than anything that came after us.
So I think in that there's something about what you're asking that letting go has to do with letting go of the attachment and of the attachment to seeing the attachment itself as what causes the problems not what your activity is.
he does experience the world as an enormously loving space a space that he loves the space that loves him the space of total complete acceptance and in a very in a way that's very radical for him but he had never known such a degree of comfort in the world complete absence of self consciousness embarrassment.