The Song of Awakening: A Guide to Liberation Through Marananussati ‘Mindfulness of Death’ [Namgyal Rinpoche]

“No matter how glorious life is, death is a fact.”

“Walk, stand, sit and lie with death.

Look around you . . .

The bamboo thicket that you see

represents the tangle of the mind.

The only way to transcend death

is to look at the tangle dispassionately.

If you understand death,

you will understand energy,

and you will see how to use it

more effectively on the path.”

Bodhi Publishing is pleased to announce the publishing of a second edition of the profound discourses Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche gave, so that they may be available once again for the benefit of all beings.

Although more than four decades have passed since the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche first gave these superb teachings in Crete, they remain as fresh and as timeless a guide to liberation as they were when he first gave them then. In a pithy, clear and engaging manner, he illumines the themes of liberation through the practice of Mindfulness of Death as well as the quintessential practice of Mahamudra, the great sign that is no sign.