{"product_id":"the-world-exists-to-set-us-free-straight-up-dharma-for-living-a-life-of-awareness-paperback","title":"The World Exists to Set Us Free: Straight-Up Dharma for Living a Life of Awareness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMadeline Drexler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDown-to-earth wisdom on how to live a life of authenticity and spiritual integrity, from one of the West's most respected teachers of vipassana meditation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow does dharma wisdom show up in our lives every day? This collection of teachings by the beloved Insight Meditation teacher Larry Rosenberg offers clear, down-to-earth guidance on learning how to live a life informed by Buddhism--through questioning, reflective observation, and self-understanding. Rosenberg is known for presenting the essence of the Buddhism in a way that is unvarnished, utterly accessible, and that resonates with a wide audience. Here he unpacks--with his signature engaging and iconoclastic style--such topics as meditation, silence, use of the breath, self-knowing, working with strong emotions, intimacy, illness and grief, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are few teachers who so epitomize the idea of \"spiritual friend\" in the way that Larry Rosenberg does. His teachings give a clear sense that dharma is very much a part of everyday life. This book is also informed by what Rosenberg considers his deeper and more immediate understanding of dharma that has come in recent years--a period marked in his own life by illness and disability--and in the life of the planet by a deadly pandemic, war, an existential climate crisis, and pervasive technological distraction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn introductory essay, written by journalist and author Madeline Drexler, serves as a spiritual biography of Rosenberg, presenting his reflections on more than half a century of dedicated dharma practice and instruction. This essay illuminates what, for Rosenberg, were profound turning points and moments of realization--his long apprenticeships with foundational figures in twentieth-century Buddhism, including Ajahn Chah, Thich Nhat Hanh, Seung Sahn, and Ajahn Buddhadasa, as well as Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e​​​LARRY ROSENBERG is the founder and guiding teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a former guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts. He is the author of three books, \u003ci\u003eBreath by Breath\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Light of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThree Steps to Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e. MADELINE DREXLER is an award-winning Boston-based journalist and author who has studied with Larry Rosenberg since 2000. For ten years she served as editor of \u003ci\u003eHarvard Public Health Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Drexler's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTricycle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUndark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Prospect\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaveur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNieman Reports\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966596186413,"sku":"9781645473947","price":22.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/m42W20PFFB9781645473947.webp?v=1775534761","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-world-exists-to-set-us-free-straight-up-dharma-for-living-a-life-of-awareness-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}