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  • Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between

  • Living with the Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • By: Robert Thurman
  • Narrated by: Robert Thurman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)
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One of the 25 most influential people in America according to Time magazine, and "the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism" ( The New York Times), Robert Thurman illuminates the Tibetan Book of the Dead with up-to-date insights for modern audiences. For centuries, this text has been read aloud to the dying, who Buddhist masters say are capable of hearing up to three days after clinical death, as a guide through the tumultuous and often terrifying process of dissolution. Now, in Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between, Professor Robert Thurman demystifies this esoteric teaching and reveals the Tibetan view of dying: it is not an ending to be feared, but a wondrous and liberating culmination of our life's journey, potentially opening into glorious new beginnings. Entering the bardo, the in-between state in which one reality dissolves and the next has not yet formed, we need not become prey to our fears and hopes. Instead, we can relax into our natural clarity and stabilize the journey. And this treasured teaching is for much more than just changing our understanding of death. Whether we have lost a dear relationship, awoken from a dream, or face the loss of our bodied life, simply hearing these teachings steadies our minds and hearts so that the journey from one state to the next changes from a tragic voyage into a clear adventure through the brilliant sky of great liberation.
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Enlightening and Inspiring

A very accessible introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Includes a useful meditation. It's not just for Buddhists ; Robert Thurman explains in a clear , and humorous, way how people of any religion and no religion can benefit from cultivating wisdom and compassion and from learning to live and to die in a more pucid way.

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Excellent

I’m studying the book Liberation Upon Hearing...and this analysis is so easy to follow and very informative, engaging and entertaining too.

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Over dramatic flippant delivery

The story gets lost because of the dramatised delivery and the forced chuckling and laughing. Also way too political with too many unnecessary superficial swipes at earthly authorities.

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More personal opinion than translation

Who named him the expert in Budhism? This is less a book than audio recording of a presentation (along with the noise from the crowd). The presenter is less speaking about what thw originl teachings are and more what he thinks of it (along with much not needed jokes and forced laughter). I couldn't finish the first half...

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