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Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen
by Tenzin W. Rinpoche
from Snow Lion Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• For the Shamanic at Heart
  If you have a shamanistic bent this book is jam packed with the kind of useful information that usually requires an apprenticeship to acquire. It is one of the three most practical books I've encountered. If you play around with the practices and hints in this book you will experience amazing wonders in a very short time. Through two practices in particular you might even recognize the basis of your mind or be visited by deities. Don't think for one more minute, just buy the book and do the practices for... more info

• Learn To Think Like A Tibetan
  Forgive me if I respond first to the review below that said "watch out! This isn't Buddhism!" What that person doesn't know is Tenzin Rinpoche's books are usually prefaced by the Dalai Lama--that's how accepted this is as a legitimate spiritual pathway. This isn't like western religions where diversity means you have to burn somebody at the stake. Everybody is openly accepted for what of value they can offer and Bon has a very alive dzogchen transmission that is second to none. Sorry for this digression.more info

• good reference book
  If you have a basic understanding of other five element practices, this book is a great resource to round out understanding from the Tibetan Bon teaching. It also covers what in TCM are the Jing, Qi and Shen levels of the Bon approach. Very clearly and openly. I thoroughly enjoyed the author's writing style and felt the generousity of spirit in his writing. But remember that information does not make a practice, only a practice makes a practice.

• watch out
  As the teachings of Buddhism cross the pacific ocean, it is very difficult to know what is true and what is false. this is false teachings. We here in the United States think that we live in a world that there are many choices and that we can pick and choose.
  Our deluded thinking that we have the ability to choose what is best is absolutely wrong.
  this book steals from Vajrayana Buddhism but is aligned with Bonpo. All buddhist and those that are trying to learn about Vajrayana Buddhism, just do... more info

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