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“How To Be Gay is…written by a gifted thinker and writer who has come to see that there is not just a political and sexual gay culture (its foundational event the rioting outside the Stonewall Inn in 1969), based on gay identity rather than sensibility, but also a nonsexual gay culture, based on modes of feeling and expressive artifacts.”―Adam Mars-Jones, London Review of Books“[Halperin] provocatively argues that when it comes to defining what it means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated… Culture matters more… [How To Be Gay] is never a bore… [It] explores a fundamental kind of gay sensibility… Halperin teases an enormous amount out of [a] scene [in Mildred Pierce], including the sense of ‘glamour and abjection’ gay audiences find in [Joan] Crawford, and how the film packages the ‘transgressive spectacle of female strength, autonomy, feistiness and power.’ …Halperin works up to an argument (impossible to summarize here) about how the film evokes a ‘dissident perspective’ on the very idea of romantic love. He is articulate about many other things in this book, including how gay men often find more resonance in straight cultural artifacts than in gay ones. His funny shorthand for this is: ‘Why would we want Edmund White, when we still have The Golden Girls?’ …He is excellent, too, on how classical tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons… Dozens of similar arguments are rehearsed in How To Be Gay. Halperin even neatly mows down hipster irony in the face of the kind of gay male irony that defines camp. It’s a kaleidoscopic book that at its base breaks with what the author calls ‘the Brokeback Mountain crowd.’ He urges gay men to take their so-called femininity out of ‘homosexuality’s newly built closet,’ to see it plainly and to give it affirmative interpretations.”―Dwight Garner, New York Times“How To Be Gay celebrat[es] the sharp-elbowed camp culture that many now consider obsolete… How can someone be gay without having seen Mildred Pierce or The Wizard of Oz? To answer that, you first have to know what such movies have to do with being gay. Halperin observes, as others have before him, that gay boys often display stereotypical tastes long before sex enters the picture. As he points out, sexuality is the area where gay men differ least from straight men… Gay taste is something more singular, probably linked to incipient feelings of dissimilarity from one’s peers… Halperin is right to defend the old rituals and the lingo and body language that go with them… So long live camp, and all the other cultural pursuits that gay people have traditionally embraced. Perhaps the historic devotion to theatre, opera, high fashion, and other venerable disciplines will wither away, but it seems likely that many gay kids will still feel the trauma of difference and go on seeking refuge in artier spheres. Halperin speaks of a ‘tension between egalitarian ethics and hierarchical aesthetics’ in gay taste; he sees it as a snobbery not of class but of knowledge, open to all who can hold their own. It stands in opposition to a society that joins egalitarian aesthetics―the notion that the perfect cultural product appeals to all―to an economic system whose inequalities become more glaring by the day. Gay culture’s long memory, its arch sympathy for fading worlds, is a check against the razing of the past.”―Alex Ross, New Yorker“[A] provocatively titled critical cri de coeur… To summarize Halperin’s ambitious book is tricky, but think of it as an exploration of the tension between the official Pride Parade, celebrating post-Stonewall gay identity, and the Drag March, celebrating pre-liberation gay culture… Halperin is at his best when critiquing the current assimilationist model of gay-rights activism, with its denial of any cultural interests or aesthetic points-of-view that hint of femininity or campiness or of the ‘stereotypically gay.’ His cultural history of how this attitude emerged in the 1970s will be surprising to those who view the gay-rights movement as a consistently positive progression; Halperin argues convincingly that as butch masculine styles became ever more mandatory, both for attracting sexual/romantic partners (no femmes, no fats!) as well as earning political credibility, the push toward conformity lead to the ‘euthanasia of traditional gay male culture.’ …How To Be Gay is intellectually rigorous [and] entertaining… Halperin demonstrates that those gays who do still identify with Bette and Joan, drag and drapes, Auntie Mame and Annie Lennox have something important to contribute to our ever more homogenous world.”―J. Bryan Lowder, Slate“Halperin rejoices in the growing acceptance of homosexuality in mainstream society, although he’s quick to point out that homophobia is still potent. He doesn’t want gay culture to be lost as assimilation increases. It’s a legitimate concern, and he makes his case forcefully.”―Tavo Amador, Bay Area Reporter“How To Be Gay engages many of the foundational questions―and dogmas―of queer studies… What, Halperin wants to know, is gay culture? …Halperin is plying his own twist on the familiar idea that by aligning themselves with certain forms―flamboyance, abject glamour, exaggerated femininity―gay men implicitly challenge the uptight codes of a patriarchal culture… Gay culture, for Halperin, isn’t really attached to any given person’s experience; rather, it’s a set of tactics, adopted behaviors, and strategies imbricated in a much larger social field… Frivolity, irony, superficiality, inauthenticity, flamboyance, snobbishness, exquisite taste: How To Be Gay works hard to unpack the stereotypical characteristics of gay male culture and succeeds in demonstrating how the taint of pathology and the rise of a post-Stonewall ethos of hypermasculine self-determination conspire to shut down a frank inquiry into the persistence of such ‘faggy’ traits.”―Nathan Lee, Bookforum“David M. Halperin has written a monumental work… In detail, the book explores the emotional and personalized subjectivity in describing what is at the core of gay culture and the innermost feelings of what it is to be ‘gay.’ …It is Halperin’s intent to create a serious dialogue, though there are many smiles to be had at the same time, while absorbing the process. How To Be Gay is both enlightening and refreshing in the personal discovery of self or for lack of a better phrase, the perfect way to understand the how, what, where and why ‘to turn your inner-gay on.’”―Bill Biss, Edge“How To Be Gay is not an instruction manual, nor is it a ‘learning to love yourself’ self-help guide. Rather, Halperin’s book is an intervention against those who trumpet the ‘death of gay culture’ (which he argues has been declared for over 40 years now) now that widening tolerance and greater visibility of gays in the media should make Judy Garland, show tunes, and drag queens obsolete… Halperin’s fresh re-evaluation of the theory and practice of camp is one of his most fascinating insights… Halperin makes a case for camp as politically subversive and a case study for the complicated structure of gay identification… One gets the sense that Halperin anticipates his greatest detractors to not be social conservatives (though he has been their pariah in the past), but instead to be other gay men who fear the essentialism of acknowledging the role a distinct gay culture plays in shaping gay identity… Halperin narrates the history of this masculine reaction against gay culture, culling from his own memories in the ’70s of how newly ‘liberated’ gay men appropriated the machismo of biker culture, mustaches, and construction worker clothing to combat the stereotype of the pathetic queens and fairies of the previous generation. This is a valuable history lesson to readers from subsequent generations given that these signifiers of ’70s gay masculinity are now considered in the campy light of The Village People, and thus part of the gay culture from which today’s champions of machismo and normality try to distance their selves. How To Be Gay deserves a wide audience beyond academia, especially among today’s youth generation who come out in a climate more accepting of same-sex coupling, but still very much phobic and censorious of gay culture.”―Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review“How To Be Gay makes for as fun a viewing companion [to Mildred Pierce and Mommie Dearest] as it does a rigorously intelligent read… Whether you’re well-versed in all things gay or tend to avoid pop divas at all costs, How To Be Gay offers a fresh perspective on what we call gay culture, why so many of us love what we love and why we’re afraid to talk about it. Thankfully, as Halperin notes in his conclusion, gay male culture isn’t going anywhere―as long as there’s a straight culture to appropriate for our own ends.”―Jameson Fitzpatrick, Next Magazine“[A] weighty, thought-provoking tome… Halperin explores notions of gay male identity and stereotypes, wondering what has shaped gay behavior and whether it’s a reaction against the hetero-normative society into which we’re born.”―Out in the City

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David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Publisher: Belknap Press; Reprint edition (March 31, 2014)

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Admittedly, there is quite a lot of repetition in this very thick book. But if you can overlook that (or simply fast forward every now and then) you will be rewarded with many thought provoking observations. For me, personally, a direct result of reading this book was to embrace to 'camp' and 'gay' side of my personality more, instead of trying to look/appear 'normal' and 'fit in' with the rest of society. Because, as Halperine describes, just wanting to be 'normal' throws away the unique gift that is given to many gay people. His account of a lesbian activist who wants to get married to her girlfriend, only so she can dress up for the wedding like everyone else and enjoy the normal joys of run-of-the-mill-heteros, was truly shocking. (Is that what the LGBT community is fighting for: boring normality?) You certainly come out of reading this book wanting to watch your old Joan Crwaford movies again! Instead of being ashamed of liking such films, Broadway musicals etc., one should celebrate the fact that different things speak to gay men, or men with a gay sensitity (which heteors can also have). Hughly enjoyable, on the whole.

I'd love to have had a course like this in my 20's - level-headed, amusing, detailed without being overly academic or polemical - a great handbook for may one wondering what it's like to be gay -

Really an excellent view on how it is to grow up in a heter normative environment regardless of how that environment view homosexuality. Also how we gays re-interpret straight representations. However, too much emphasis on 2 movies.

This reminds us that oh' yeah we need this culture, that provides: artists, hairdressers, fashion designers, film producers, novelists, and architects, just to mention a few of the trades heavily relied upon by every other culture. This is an important form of education.

I did...both want to like, as well as like much of it.I wanted, needed a respite from a parade of dry doctoral theses..."How to Be Gay" Ta-da! Sounds like fun, no? Well, it did to me. Here was that respite the doctorates ordered! Buff bums parading in rows across a brilliant, drag-show-feather-boa-pink cover. How gay is that? Hold onto your seat...bumpy night ahead! And, we're off like a prom dress!Clearly tongue-in-cheek...its cheekiness dripping with irony, humor, wit! Could any culture be more adept than the gay community at parading irony in even the most sorrowful experience? (cue the Fire Island Italian widows), exaggerated humor in the most mundane? ("Mom, please pass the peas to the homosexual at the table."), the entertainment value of curtain rod shoulder pads (Carol Burnett, ready for her close-up!), the biting wit in social observation? Coward? Wilde? Crisp?Irony? Humor? Wit? Not here in the telling.OK, so the book is soooo mistitled. Titles sell books. It sold mine. But prepare for a doctoral thesis. OK, still valid, if perhaps a cover, misjudged.With proffered humility, Halperin risks a tightrope walk into analysis of gay culture. Is there a community more possessive of its identity or more resistant to or resentful of categorization? Nevertheless, Halperin walks that rope confidently, often convincingly, occasionally tripping, but I believe there is a very good, 300 page book somewhere in this 500 page jumble.I shall not enter into argument of Focault's early work, later work, Freud's contributions, Freud's miss-analyses, etc.. I'll leave that to White and other better minds than mine, though reasonably well-read on the subject of gay culture. What I will claim is frequent reminder of undergraduate professors who droned. Student, awaking from a mid-lecture doze, finds professor right where he was when he nodded.Damn, man. Where is the editor who perhaps could not inject jocularity, sass, or clever turn of phrase, but at least recognition and reflection of the culture's in the text? Who could do some organizing of this closet, sans wire coat hangers? Arbitrary "divisions" do nothing here to clarify whatever point is being made in the mini-chapters. Mired in "Mildred Pierce" and "Mommy Dearest," Halperin's frequently valid hypotheses are stifled by unfortunate repetition. Again. And again.Reader: definitely use a bookmark...otherwise, one would be hard-pressed to follow logical progression in this tome. I couldn't.That said, I did find this a worthwhile read (if "sloggy," as one review here termed it), in spite of what I, and some others, feel are its shortcomings. The author's conclusions offer much to engender discourse and argument.Halperin himself contends that drag is a democratic art form, approachable by all without hierarchical snobbery. It is performance art (in contrast to cross-dressing), audience being an existential element, and with constituent goal if not of fun, surely of entertainment. Would that the democratic entertainment suggested by the cover had been found inside. What a delightful time we could have had!

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From the book reviews:“The text does a great job of showing how to do each step using the data mining tool Rattle and related R concepts as appropriate. This makes it a great tool for someone who does not know much about R and wants to learn more about the powerful options available in R for data mining.” (Roger M. Sauter, Technometrics, Vol. 54 (3), August, 2012)“This text is a manual for the impressive Rattle graphical user interface (GUI) for R, describing both the use of the GUI and the R code that is invoked to carry out the computations. … Data analysts … are likely to find Rattle a helpful tool that will allow them to quickly become productive with R. … There is extensive useful practical advice on data preparation and data manipulation. … is well suited for use in intermediate level courses on regression or classification.” (John H. Maindonald, International Statistical Review, Vol. 80 (1), 2012)

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Data mining is the art and science of intelligent data analysis. By building knowledge from information, data mining adds considerable value to the ever increasing stores of electronic data that abound today. In performing data mining many decisions need to be made regarding the choice of methodology, the choice of data, the choice of tools, and the choice of algorithms.Throughout this book the reader is introduced to the basic concepts and some of the more popular algorithms of data mining. With a focus on the hands-on end-to-end process for data mining, Williams guides the reader through various capabilities of the easy to use, free, and open source Rattle Data Mining Software built on the sophisticated R Statistical Software. The focus on doing data mining rather than just reading about data mining is refreshing.The book covers data understanding, data preparation, data refinement, model building, model evaluation, and practical deployment. The reader will learn to rapidly deliver a data mining project using software easily installed for free from the Internet. Coupling Rattle with R delivers a very sophisticated data mining environment with all the power, and more, of the many commercial offerings.

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Paperback: 396 pages

Publisher: Springer; 2011 edition (August 4, 2011)

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R is becoming one of the leading tools of choice for serious data mining and quantitative analysis and is probably the most commonly used tool at the graduate school level today (it helps that it is open source and free!). But as a programming language, it has a steep learning curve, at least steeper than many of the more traditional GUI-based tools for quantitative and statistical analysis like SPSS or even SAS. This book provides a great introduction to both the topic of data mining and using the Rattle interface, which is a GUI built around typical data mining functions for the R language. If you work through this book in detail, you will learn a fair bit the basics of the R language as well as how to complete some basic data mining tasks inside the Rattle interface. For anyone looking to learn more about R, this would be a great introduction.

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I cannot believe I have not reviewed this gem before; I am on my 3rd read of it! I have been voraciously reading many Buddhist "must reads" in my hope for enlightenment for all beings: Tibetan Book of the Dead, Shantideva, plus the many commentaries. I keep coming back to David Michie for the "cut to the chase" accessibility and ease-of-understanding in which he writes. Some days I can dive into Shantideva, and other days it helps to have a lighter explanation.I LOVE Enlightenment To Go for just this reason. Mr Michie writes from the heart, clearly, simply, as if we were old friends chatting. There is a comfort I find when he tells of his experiences and, while it may or may not compare to mine at times, there is a human-ness and warmth to it. Sometimes I find the long-time practitioners-writers have a coolness in their equanimity, and I get that. But sometimes I find it really helpful to have a smidge more warmth to explanations, commentaries, and parables, and Mr Michie has that down pat.Honestly I find myself reading all his books more than once, as each time I see something different, make a better connection to a story, or expand on a text I hadn't focused on before. Enlightenment To Go is my favorite: as I study Shantideva, I understand a little bit better *everyone's* commentaries, not just Mr Michie's. A great read all around and a good study guide too!

I struggled to finish this book. I wanted to LOVE it and to embrace it. I still rated it four stars because I learned a lot about Buddhism, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t douse my drive a bit. I read David Michie’s Buddhism for Busy People which I loved. Enlightenment to Go is much deeper and, for me, made the practice of Buddhism seem less doable. For example, in Busy People although it strongly suggests having a teacher he wrote that the search may take up to ten years… kind of like “no sweat, take your time, find a good match (my words, not Michie’s)”. With Enlightenment to Go there seemed an urgency to find a teacher immediately… without one it was as if you won’t go anywhere. Both books emphasize action over academia but Enlightenment to Go was sterner.Another point, there is an ease about Michie’s writing style that I thoroughly enjoy. I consider myself a slow reader, but I breeze through his. I also read his The Dalai Lama’s Cat series and highly recommend it for anyone who likes cats and wants to learn a little elementary Buddhism. It sprouted my interest.

David Michie has an easy going, fun to read style, whether it is fiction or non-fiction. I'm a big fan. In this book he makes some of the Buddhism basics, as written by Shantideva so long ago, a little easier to understand with examples from his own life. It's amazing to me how these words of wisdom are as meaningful today as I can only imagine they were in the eighth century when written. But Michie is never preachy - indeed he lets us in on his own all too human challenges. This book inspires me to be more mindful and compassionate and gives me practical ideas on how to do so-just when I need it most it seems.

Read all of David Michie's works. He makes Buddhism fun, funny and practical while answering many questions before they come up. He incorporates them in simple and clear prose. Great Books all the time.

In this companion to Buddhism for Busy People, David expands on his explanations and applications of Buddhist principles to every day western lives. There is so much here that you will want to read it again and again and then you will start giving it to family and friends....The audio version is a favorite of mine, because David reads it himself and you get to hear his emphasis and passion for each part of the enlightenment process. Make no mistake, again this is NOT religion nor is it meant to take the place of your faith. There are some who may want to become Buddhists, which is a different animal entirely than using Buddhist principles to guide your life and find a better way to live it. If you are so inclined to become a Buddhist, then this may answer some questions you may have regarding the philosophy of Buddhism. If you are completed with your own faith, but are aching for "more" and have found church unfulfilling for a variety of reasons, then this might be another way to find your way back to God/your faith. The underlying message here is (and one that Buddha often recited "don't believe me, find out for yourself if this is true"). The principles contained in this book are so clear and so obvious, that it would seem only those utterly consumed by their ego's will find a reason not to want to know and/or apply more to their own daily lives. Get this book.

I love David Michie's writing. It can help ANYONE of any belief system. He happens to be Buddhist, as am I, but Shantideva's words are for everyone. It will make your day to day living better. Read it!

Mr. Michie's writing style is as if he's talking directly to you, as a friend. This book is easy to follow as he uses many examples from his own life, to explain Buddhist psychology in an easy-to-understand way. A great read for anyone wanting a little mind and heart expansion and a fun introduction to the practice. I bought his other books too!

His books are my new binge reading this year. Have been through nearly all of them. Love the cat stories too!

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“Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche shatters old myths and sweeps away cultural baggage, presenting the essence of the Buddha’s teachings in a fresh, contemporary voice. With uncommon clarity and authority, he offers a new vision for the future of Buddhism that is at once shocking and hopeful. This is a small book with a big message that is timely and important.”—Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart “Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha’s liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality.”—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, author of The Joy of Living “A seminal work for the growth of Buddhism in contemporary society. Fearlessly and intelligently, Ponlop Rinpoche invites the reader to make these ancient tools meaningful in our lives, without any fetishizing of someone else’s culture. Rinpoche’s voice roars with the relaxed confidence of authenticity, and the fierce urgency of now. In Rebel Buddha, Rinpoche establishes himself as something we need now much more than a Tibetan lama: he is among the first of the American Buddhist masters.”—Ethan Nichtern, author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence “This book does a wonderful job of bringing the Buddha’s teachings to all of us here in the West. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has great insights into the workings of our minds, guiding us from delusion to clarity.”—Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

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Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, born in 1965 in northeast India, was trained in the meditative and intellectual disciplines of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of many of the greatest masters from Tibet’s pre-exile generation. He is a widely celebrated teacher, known for his skill in making the full richness of Buddhist wisdom accessible to modern minds, and devotes much of his energy to developing a vision of a genuine Western Buddhism. For more information, go to www.rebelbuddha.com.

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Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Shambhala; First Paperback Edition edition (September 6, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1590309294

ISBN-13: 978-1590309292

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6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

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4.6 out of 5 stars

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Very easy to read and clear book about removing the culture from the true essence of the teachings. I believe this is a very essential book for Western Buddhism moving forwardd also gives some refreshing views on the path in general. For example, I really liked how he described the guru how Gautama had described it: a spiritual friend.Was definitely I in mroe detail and specifics about what this looks like and how he envisions vajryana Buddhism in the west taking shape moving forward.

Okay, so, I enjoyed this book. I did. But I thought I was going to enjoy this book a lot more than I actually did. The good: it's a Buddhism book directed towards Americans, written in a very easy way to understand by someone who never heard of Buddhism. The ideas are good ideas all passed down from the Buddha; mindfulness, compassion, and the like. Plus, I like the way the author writes. It's laid back and still intelligent. His comparisons are sound. I especially liked the stories about his past, being born into this Buddhist lifestyle. The bad: If you're even kind of familiar with Buddhism, I think it is kind of repetitive to read. After awhile, I grew sick of the word "mindfulness". It just kept being repeated, and I am so familiar with the "Healthy Living" section of every magazine where they prescribe meditation and "mindfulness" and I've read many Buddhism articles and books; so it really did irk me after being bashed in the head with it so many times. It got too "self-help"-y sometimes. If you don't mind that, or you're new to Buddhism, you will definitely learn a thing or two and you'll enjoy it a lot. If not, I'd advise you to skip this one.

As has been true with each book I've read by Ponlop Rinpoche, "Rebel Buddha" adds enormously to my knowledge of Buddhism. I always welcome his understanding of American Culture and how far he has come to bridge the "gap" between Tibet and America in his writings on Buddhism. (Even to the point that he watches Stephen Colbert!).I always find a great deal of encouragement from his writings for my practice; that I can advance, that awakening may not be millions of lifetimes in the future but, in fact, could be at any time with deepening practice of the six perfections.Rinpoche's approach is casual, light-hearted and joyful, but, nevertheless conveys the immense importance of undertaking the Path. I've never met him, but through his writings, I've come to regard him as a great spiritual friend.~~Rich

Rebel Buddha is a refreshing Buddhist primer, a recapitulation of core ideas stripped of some of the most common Asian cultural accretions. "If we are to understand who we are as individuals and societies," Ponlop says, "then we need to see the interdependence of culture, identity and meaning." His version of Buddhism for Americans is much like what we have been reading for the past decade from authors such as Stephen Batchelor, a commitment to personal transformation through personal introspection, a Buddhism grounded in practice, skepticism and secularism. The book is refreshingly free of Buddhist jargon and makes an interesting read for old-timers if for no other reason than to see how Buddhist ideas can be expressed in ways that might be more appealing to a modern, non-religious audience. It's also mostly free of metaphysical ideas - not a peep about karma, reincarnation, devas, hell-beings, or bodhisattvas. Other assumptions are left untouched. Is the idea of an ultimate reality, for example, a rusty legacy of the Iron Age? If the Buddha's truth is universal, why has it emerged in original form (and not as an adaptation) in no other time and place? As Ponlop describes himself as someone on the path, as someone not yet fully liberated, is he doing nothing more than passing on second-hand claims of an ultimate enlightenment, like a Christian clergyman promising heaven, "realities" neither has experienced? One clever adaptation to American culture is the book title, really nothing more than a gimmick, a bit of good-old American misdirection, associating compassion and wisdom with individualism and resistance to cultural norms.================================================QUOTABLE"Real wisdom is when you find a true question."p23 "Sometimes going to an extreme is the only way to trigger a revolution of mind." p177"..if we can't appreciate our own neurosis, then there's no way to appreciate the world, which is full of neurotic people. Like it or not, that is our world." p99"One of the greatest contributions we can make to our world is to learn how to live in harmony with each other." p172"If there's any way we can really save someone, being genuine and kind is probably the only way." p103"Look at your mind when you wake up in the morning and discover that there's no milk for your coffee, it's raining again, the car needs gas, and your kids have the headphones on and are refusing to speak to you. In that moment, where is your equanimity, your compassion? If you need reminders that will urge you toward practice, you can easily find them in your own life." p110"The spiritual friend [the teacher] is a person with whom you can have a relationship as a friend rather than an authority figure, boss, or CEO of your organization. We need to understand this, because frankly we're missing this element today in many of our Tibetan Buddhist organizations." p117"...when we think of the Buddha, we imagine a saintly figure giving out profound teachings. We don't see an Indian man walking dusty paths from village to village; getting hungry, tired and sore; sometimes smiling and sometimes scowling. Do we think he was meditating all the time? Do we think he never shouted at anyone? He was a human being, just like us, and he can be a wonderful model for us precisely because of that." p158#

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is one of the best living Buddhist Teacher/Authors. He makes Buddhism clear and easy to understand.

My husband and I read this together. We both felt like it was a great dharma book. It is a contemporary approach to traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Ponlop Rinpoche is very wise and has a good sense of humor. It is a great beginning dharma book, a good gift for those who are curious and I would definitely recommend it.

I'm new to Buddhism, and I found the book to be somewhat informative on the topic. It mostly provides a Western point of view on Buddhism. What I mean by that is, the traditional aspects were not included in the explanation. It's a bare bones description on how to get started with meditating, what to expect when you go further down the path, and what to look for in a spiritual "friend" (teacher).

Read a little each day and improve your life.

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