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Smile at Fear

Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

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Smile at Fear

By: Chögyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian - editor, Pema Chödrön - foreword
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen White, Steven Crossley
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Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears - perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress.

Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are," writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this audiobook, he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.

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Love this though I personally found the narrator to be quite irritating. The text itself is excellent, straightforward and profound at the same time as well as very entertaining.

Excellent wisdom and inspiration

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a well written and well read text that is insightful and thought provoking. Will be listening to it again.

Very insightful

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Once again an amazong amd detailed book which takes you by the hand to overcone and understand your fears. You will not only learn why yours fears affect you emotionally and physically but more importantly how to neutralise them and move on. Recommended

Tremendous and well read

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I found it hard to understand everything but that could be more my general understanding of Buddhism being a novice, some very nice ideas in there, and has caught my imagination, I think I probably need a more simple guide to Buddhism.

I found it hard to understand at times

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I loved this. Chogyam Trungpa explains things in such an honest, humorous and lucid way. This book in particular develops a narrative of ideas in a clear and progressive manner that it helped me recognise the universal truth of what he was describing in my own experiences. This is immensely reassuring and gives me confidence and a willingness to trust the dharma. Samsara is something to be embraced and used because its traps and pitfalls can be used as fuel for greater understanding, its loneliness as fuel for compassion, and fear as the stepping stone to fearlessness.

so good

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