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For centuries Tibetan Buddhist masters have uncovered joy and meaning in the dying process. For them death is not a mystery. They know what will happen and see it as a great chance for spiritual development. Fearless Death makes their teachings accessible to the modern West. In this book, Lama Ole Nydahl condenses the information he learned from years spent with great Buddhist masters in the East. His explanations are enriched by decades of experience guiding modern people through the dying process.
In 1968, Lama Ole and his wife Hannah began training with meditation masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas. In 1972, Lama Ole learned the rare meditation practice of conscious dying (Phowa) according to the wishes of his teacher, the great 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Since then he has taught the Phowa practice to over 90,000 people throughout the western world, inspiring them to live for others and face death without fear.
People are less afraid of things they can understand. With Phowa training and the knowledge found in this book, readers can transform fear and doubt into confidence and a calm state of mind when facing death.
- Sales Rank: #379290 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-01
- Released on: 2013-05-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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This excellent book about death and dying...will be extremely helpful for people to prepare for their own death, and to lose their fear of dying, knowing now that death is just the end of our physical aspects but not of our consciousness...This book could be of great help in daily medical practice in the Western world, where death is still a huge taboo as a result of widespread ignorance. Highly recommended. --Pim van Lommel, M.D., Author of Consciousness beyond Life
About the Author
Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few Westerners fully qualified as a Lama and meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition. In 1969, Ole Nydahl and his late wife Hannah became the first Western students of H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. After completing several years of Buddhist philosophy studies and intensive meditation training, Nydahl began teaching Buddhism in Europe at the request of the 16th Karmapa. He has since transmitted the Karma Kagyu Buddhist teachings in a different city nearly every day, traveling and teaching worldwide. His depth of knowledge and dynamic teachings inspire thousands of people at his lectures and meditation retreats. Nydahl has been a major driving force in bringing Buddhism to the West, and to date has established more than 600 Diamond Way Buddhist centers in 44 countries around the world. His unique synthesis of modern style and ancient wisdom helped create the largest body of students practicing Diamond Way Buddhist methods in the West. Nydahl's books have been translated into 20 languages and are enjoyed by readers in over 40 countries, including his most recent title published in 2012, Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships.
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42 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
Studying For Our Final Exam
By rain cloud
I remember the moment when Death became real for me.
It was eleven o'clock at night on my 17th birthday. I was riding in the front seat of a car between two friends racing across an ancient 2-lane iron bridge in Oklahoma when the kid driving lost control and we bounced off one side of the bridge then the other then swerved at full speed right into an oncoming pickup.
The crash was the loudest noise I'd ever heard. Saying it was a "boom" doesn't do it justice.
When it was over all I could think of was that the car would explode into a ball of flame like in the movies (which rarely happens in real life).
The impact had jammed both doors shut. The kid on my right was lying in the floorboard moaning. I kicked out the window above him and scrambled out over him. (He teased me for years, "You stepped right on my chest!") You'd be amazed the things you can do when you think you're only seconds from fiery death.
In the car it had been toasty warm but on the highway, in deep, dark December it was pitch black and deadly silent with a stiff north wind that was like ice. The impact of the crash had knocked off one of my shoes and I hobbled around in shock with that funny up-and-down motion of walking with one shoe off and one shoe on.
Somewhere in the dark I spit out five teeth but I was alive! I spent the next several months in that strange dream-like state of knowing I was living a life that might not have happened. I don't think any of this is unusual.
There's a moment in your life when death became real for you, too.
You know right now what it was: an accident, the death of a friend, a parent, or grandparent or maybe even a beloved pet. As westerners I don't think we need to be reminded of that. It's a huge, looming reality for all of us. We all know what the situation is. We've all had that moment.
Someone once said the spiritual search is fueled by fear of death. That sounds true for me. For many of us it began in that moment when death became very real, when it went from abstact story to hard reality.
This book takes you back to that beginning, closes the circle, by returning to that original moment only not just as a blind fear to push away and forget.
We can understand what death is, train for it, and even study for it like we would our final exam before we leave this life.
And if we train for it we can develop confidence about it. And with confidence will come the fearlessness Ole Nydahl speaks of in the title.
It's been known for a long time the Tibetans have an approach to death. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" has been available in the west for decades.
The problem with that version is it's really not very accessible to westerners.
Ole Nydahl, on the other hand, is one of us, a westerner who spent four years as a close disciple of a legendary Tibetan yogi called, "The Sixteenth Karmapa" (his "heart student" they call it) and who has a well-known talent for making difficult concepts clear to western ears.
I really can't imagine anyone more qualified to do it, he's fluent in several languages, including Tibetan, has had his own brushes with death, and even seems to have his fear well under control.
This book, it seems to me, is a book i want to live with as I prepare for my final exam. Try it and maybe you'll agree with me.
If you're young and death seems far away, that's actually the best time to begin.
If you're like me and every mirror you look in seems to have something wrong with it cause you're definitely not as good looking as you're supposed to be, well you'll be even happier to have found it.
I know that though I managed to escape death on that rusty old bridge so long ago, it'll catch up with me some day. Only that time, I want to be ready.
It's in our hands now, I think. And we can do it, live better, die better, and if you can accept it, find an even better rebirth.
Best of luck, whatever your spiritual pathway is. May we all prepare well for our final exams and may they be a long way away!
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Death at the cocktail-party
By BALDO
Probably no conversation topic carries a stronger negative connotation than death. Even within our highly educated - and often just as highly skeptical - social gatherings in the fashionably superficial Western cities we inhabit, broaching that topic challenges the limits of commonly accepted good manners. Suddenly the cocktail-party crowd, animated with countless half-baked yet strongly defended opinions on subjects ranging from international politics and world economy to the latest design trends, dance music styles, and sports events, falls into a somber silence when somebody asks unexpectedly the ill-fated question: "By the way, what do you think happens when we die?" The music stops, the dancers freeze in mid-step, and all heated debaters turn around openmouthed halfway through a sentence. The unutterable ultimate taboo is unashamedly out in the open. "What do you mean? We die?" Unthinkable. Others do, of course. Soldiers die heroically on remote battlefields and ancient half-forgotten relatives die in some vaguely located medical facility. We read about death in the news every day, occasionally the obituaries may contain a familiar name. Perhaps sometimes the final demise of a famous rock star or of a close friend provides inspiration for a memorial service or yet another cocktail-party. But "us", "me"? It's definitely in bad taste to take that into consideration. Naturally, we are very open-minded; we may have casual dinner conversations about sexual techniques and weapons of mass destruction, but who wants to address socially one's own death? To graciously step around that discomfort zone, we resort conveniently to a number of euphemistic clichés; we never die: we "pass away", we "depart", we "move on to a better place", we "cross the great divide", or we may experience a "fatal accident" or a "terminal disease".
This social avoidance seems a logical reaction: after all, what can you do about it? On the other hand, is it rational to ignore such a common phenomenon?
While there is a necessarily unanimous agreement that "two things in life cannot be avoided: death and taxes", we all, consciously or unconsciously, do our best to attempt precisely that; until of course each of us must face the unthinkable. Most people in the West seem to rely implicitly on two extreme opposite assumptions about what may happen at the moment of death: everything ends or, alternatively, a mystical "me" abruptly takes center-stage and reveals vaguely defined yet never-ending characteristics. Mainstream medical science informs us that we are "organic machines" somehow centered on a few pounds of fatty gray matter in the skull with - still unexplained but apparently unlimited - information storage capacity and unique intuitive, creative and decisional powers: when the machine breaks down beyond repair, all of that of course simply stops, vanishes, or both. Concurrently, mainstream Western and Middle-Eastern faith-based religions - in spite of a wealth of contradictory dogmatic views - seem to agree on the consoling or terrifying existence of "another life" beyond the tragic boundary of the one coming to an end: typically it is assumed that at some point a "spiritual" supreme court emits a final verdict, then we spend the remaining portion of eternity either serving out a harsh sentence or reaping endless celestial rewards.
The Eastern, especially the Buddhist, views on the subject are far more balanced and relaxed. The alternation of life and death is understood as a harmonious sequence of cyclical iterations without beginning or end, clearly observable in all aspects of the natural world: the alternations of the seasons, the recurring astronomical phenomena, and the coming and going of all life forms on the planet are some obvious aspects of it. Rejecting all extreme views of nihilism, materialism, existentialism, transcendentalism, or spiritualism, the Buddha simply taught the way things are, unsentimentally and pragmatically giving us powerful tools to make the most of all aspects of our existence. Particularly in the Tibetan culture we can find, carefully preserved and extensively elucidated, the deep explanations and practical methods given by the Buddha to understand and actually to take advantage of unique opportunities available at the moment of death. Some of these texts were composed over 10 centuries ago, collecting teachings given up to 25 centuries ago, although they began to appear in the West only during the last century. The most famous - the so-called "Tibetan book of the dead" - has become a very popular classic, with several editions, translations, commentaries, and related works published since the pioneering work of Evans-Wentz in the 1930's. While just a fragment of a collection - the integral text was finally published in English only a few years ago - of fairly cryptic notes, originally meant as concise reminders of the extensive oral explanations about various paths to liberation given in the tradition of the most ancient (Niyngma) school of Tibetan Buddhism, the "book of the dead" literature has contributed to inspire some Westerners in the last half-century to seek further information, receive oral instructions by the last great masters from Tibet, and to actually practice the meditation tools which had been given secretly for centuries only to small groups of committed adepts.
Fearless death by Lama Ole Nydahl is the most recent, fairly comprehensive yet very accessible product of this quest, an important milestone in the on-going process of preservation and practical fruition in the West of the timeless wisdom from the East.
In some unrelated interviews, the author of this book (and of several others) defines himself as a "popularizer" of Buddhist teachings: his lifetime goal - based on a promise he gave over 40 years ago to his main teacher, the late 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism - is to offer an accessible, practical, direct transmission of the timeless wisdom of the Buddha to all modern, open-minded people in our free Western society. Unlike the specialized work of diligent but abstract scholars, unlike the successful "spiritual" literature crowding bookstores with fascinating sweet tales of little practical use, loosely based on marketing-driven mixtures of pop-psychology and half-digested exotic traditions, Nydahl's work (both in writing and in the many conferences and courses he offers around the world on an essentially daily basis) is an uncompromising contemporary update of the direct, warm, generous tutoring done for centuries by accomplished yogi's in the Himalayas and elsewhere. With one important twist: his target audiences are the denizens of our modern global metropolis, more familiar with hi-tech gadgets and state-of-the-art education than with ritual implements and obscure traditions.
Fearless death is a timely and much needed cultural bridge over the deep gap that separates more and more the frenetic modern world from the endangered wisdom of ancient accomplishers. In Nydahl's consistently clear yet multilayered literary style, this book explores what humanity can learn today about death, and what we can do, in practice, with such an experience that awaits all of us, indiscriminately, in the not-too-distant future.
After a concise introduction to the current advances of medical research on the dying process, cleverly correlated with other relevant up-to-date scientific insights as well as with the "book of the dead" literature, this text takes us on an easily accessible overview of the profound Buddhist teachings on the nature of mind and the meaning of existence, with a specific focus on the highest teachings given by the Buddha and transmitted in unbroken lineages for 25 centuries by the tantric practitioners of the Diamond Way (skt: Vajrayana) traditions.
With this foundational theoretical basis in place, the book then tackles the main topic from a very practical and direct perspective: more a travel guide or a cookbook than a philosophical or religious treatise, it gently informs the reader of the serene and even joyful mindset we can all develop in anticipation of our own demise, or of that of our loved ones. The clear exposition of the sequence of experiences we may expect while dying effectively contributes to dissolve any fears naturally associated with not knowing what is going to happen. An entire chapter addresses the caregivers for terminally ill patients: a treasure trove of psychological advice aimed at professionals as well as at relatives and close friends of a dying person.
Finally, we reach the very core of the subject matter. Here Nydahl explains the phenomena occurring in our conscious awareness at the moment of death and beyond, the crucial moment of this lifetime and the starting point of the process leading our uninterrupted stream of awareness into the next lifetime, just as we've done and forgotten countless other times in our beginning-less past lives. The most profound chapter of the entire book provides an introduction to the powerful meditation methods available in the Diamond Way tradition for consciously taking control of the process and for directing the transfer of consciousness deliberately toward the most useful and meaningful outcome. The actual technique for the forceful transfer of consciousness at the time of death (tib: Phowa) can only be learned during an intensive meditation retreat of a few days under the expert guidance of a qualified teacher - Lama Ole Nydahl offers such courses 12-13 times every year in various locations around the world - and cannot be explained in writing. However, in this book we find essentially the introductory teachings given at the beginning of a Phowa course. The interested reader may later integrate this knowledge with an actual practice of the Phowa meditation in retreat: truly a life-changing experience, as reported by tens of thousands of satisfied Western participants, many with little or none previous familiarity with meditation techniques.
The remaining pages of the book contain, as a sort of bonus material, touching personal memories of the events surrounding the deaths of several Diamond Way accomplishers, including Nydahl's own main teacher, the 16th Karmapa, and his own beloved wife Hannah.
In the last chapter we find concise instructions and texts of several Diamond Way meditations, including the practice recommended for preparation to a Phowa course. There is no substitute for receiving meditation instructions directly from a teacher or experienced student, but perhaps some readers may want to wet their appetite by trying out on their own some of these timeless methods before heading to one of the over 640 Diamond Way centers in the world; probably some of which are conveniently located for many readers.
In conclusion, Fearless death in my opinion is a very important book for our modern society. It may open up some doors we previously didn't even know existed, it may finally clarify and demystify what we previously tried to understand or to believe, it may inspire us to investigate more deeply the untapped potential and the very nature of our being, and most importantly it will dissolve many fears or embarrassments many feel about such a natural process of life. The surplus of joy and meaning freed-up in our lives is priceless. Highly recommended.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Facing Death Openly
By Todd K
For those who aren't familiar with Lama Ole Nydahl, he is a popular Buddhist teacher who has taught Buddhism and Tibetan mediation since the early 70s. He and his, now deceased, wife Hannah Nydahl founded Diamond Way Buddhism, which has a worldwide following.
In Fearless Death, Lama Ole Nydahl explains how Buddhist masters perceive death as an opportunity for spiritual growth and elation. Nydahl's book constructs a bridge helping those of us in the West, who following tend (reinforced by our culture) to be terrified of life's end. Nydahl helps you see the positive aspects of death. Nydahl analyzes and then dismisses the Western fears, guiding us to understand death better and help us move toward a conscious approach to dying. Fearless Death can help us face this ultimate issue with an open heart and mind.
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