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Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) is a thoughtful voyage deep into the self, a kind of inverse Christmas Carol (1843), a chronicle of the times equal to One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) of such epic complexity it’s unfathomable that Mo Yan wrote this masterpiece by hand in mere 42 days. So begins a dizzying journey of literary ingenuity, effortlessness and sheer mastery of style and narrative. In the two years prior to that, I suffered cruel torture such as no man can imagine in the bowels of hell. This radical practice enables us to use all situations, even very painful ones, as means for discovering the truth and love that are utterly indestructible. To find it, according to traditional Buddhist teaching, we must learn to stop running from suffering and instead actually learn to approach it-fearlessly, compassionately, and with curiosity. How can we go on living when things fall apart-when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety? Pema Chodron’s answer to that question contains some spectacularly good news: there is a fundamental happiness readily available to each one of us, no matter how difficult things seem to be. Donate to the Monastic College of Surmang Dutsi Til.Donate to the Karma Drubdey Nunnery in Bhutan. Loving Oneself and Others: A Tonglen Weekend.Working with Shenpa (Getting Hooked) in Meditation.Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason with Pema Chodron.Making Friends with Yourself – Online Course Sample Video.The Nuns of Karma Drubdey Nunnery in Bhutan.The Monastic College of Surmang Dutsi Til. |