“Rebel Buddha” giveaway

We have a copy of Ponlop Rinpoche’s Rebel Buddha to give away! All you have to do is to comment below, telling us which article in Wildmind you most appreciate, and why. (Please do supply a link to, or at least the title of, the article you’re nominating).

The competition is open to anyone, world-wide, and the winner will be chosen at random on December 12.

Rebel Buddha is an exploration of what it means to be free and how it is that we can become free.

Although we may vote for the head of our government, marry for love, and worship the divine or mundane powers of our choice, most of us don’t really feel free in our day-to-day lives. When we talk about freedom, we’re also talking about its opposite — bondage, lack of independence, being subject to the control of something or someone outside ourselves. No one likes it, and when we find ourselves in that situation, we quickly start trying to figure out a way around it.

Any restriction on our “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” arouses fierce resistance. When our happiness and freedom are at stake, we become capable of transforming ourselves into rebels.

To get an idea of what the book’s like, check out these extracts, published here on Wildmind:

Meditation: Catch and release
Born to be free
Relationships: your emotional signature