'ö-Dzin Tridral 🏴 reviewed Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn
A good book for anyone: Living, Dreaming or Dying
4 stars
Rob Nairn, Living, Dreaming, Dying, Shambhala, 2004
This is a book well worth reading by anyone at any stage of life. As well as preparing the reader for death (their own, or someone else's), the book also gives a great deal of advice that improves the way we live.
Being able to dream and use the dream state in terms of Buddhist practice is seen as a helpful preparation for death. Death is seen as similar to falling asleep, except that we go somewhat further and 'wake up' in another life.
How we live this life is seen as having a great influence over how we dream and how we die. So everything that we do comes back to how we live this life - how we live this moment.
Rob Nairn's tone is one of helpful encouragement. He knows the kinds of lives people have and the difficulties they …
Rob Nairn, Living, Dreaming, Dying, Shambhala, 2004
This is a book well worth reading by anyone at any stage of life. As well as preparing the reader for death (their own, or someone else's), the book also gives a great deal of advice that improves the way we live.
Being able to dream and use the dream state in terms of Buddhist practice is seen as a helpful preparation for death. Death is seen as similar to falling asleep, except that we go somewhat further and 'wake up' in another life.
How we live this life is seen as having a great influence over how we dream and how we die. So everything that we do comes back to how we live this life - how we live this moment.
Rob Nairn's tone is one of helpful encouragement. He knows the kinds of lives people have and the difficulties they experience and shows how we can make our lives part of our Buddhist practice and in doing so improve how we live, how we dream and how we die.
Well worth reading.
“The most important thing to understand is the connection between living and dying. The mind that dies is the mind we know now. When we realize this, we feel empowered to face death in a positive way, as we would any other event in life for which we have prepared. There are many ways of preparing, and they are all central to spiritual practice in life as well as in death. We can get ready now for the last great adventure of this lifetime!” ― Rob Nairn