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In this timely self help book, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse focuses on impermenance, to live in now_ness and how to handle our mental emotions and pain balancing them. The great lesson is taught that happiness is not the goal as its created by out own mind because everything is emptiness. The Rinpoche has also explained on the four important seals in order to become a Buddhist, you must accept that all compounded phenomena are impermenant, all emotions are pain, all things have no inherent existence, and enlightenment is beyond concepts. It is not necessary that only shaved head wearing robes can become Buddhist. So what makes you not a Buddhist.

This co_written book by a Bhutanese author and an Australian author is about how bold is and beckons. There are many mystical stories about Bhutan which are very informative and interesting to know about. The intriguing 'Hidden Village of Ladders in the sky',the fable about mythical yetis and mystical blue bear. It is also a part adventure about the author meeting with the great hermit in high Himalayas.Futher the book is part history that tells the assassination, the unfortunate 2003 conflict and how Bold Bhutan recovered from these tragedies.Above all giving the concept of Gross National Happiness that always prevails.