Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini - Schmidt Marcia, Tulku Thondup

Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini is a collection of teachings taken from the author's own life, gained from ';experience through mistakes, learning the hard way.' After an early life as a ';quasiradical, hippie, horse trainer, and environmentalist,' Marcia Dechen Wangmo became a Buddhist. Over the next three decades, through encounters with respected Tibetan masters and an enduring student-teacher relationship with a famed yogi, she moved deep into the hidden world of Vajrayana Buddhism.Written as a guidebook for others and presented within a Buddhist framework, Confessions offers a fresh approach to traditional teachings. The author turns an unflinching eye on her own shortcomings and painful experiences in a series of revelations proving that, despite appearances to the contrary, she has been a far from ideal student. ';I confess to not eradicating ignorance from the core,' she begins. Interweaving insights gained from her personal experience, step by step she draws readers closer to the fruits of Buddhist practice: the ability to see things as they truly are.From the Trade Paperback edition.