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Cordelia Naismith was resourceful and courageous, but what is Lady Vorkosigan like? When her life is shattered by a soltoxin grenade, the unfortunate Barrayarans who target her husband and hit her child find out.
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Cordelia Naismith had married a simple retired soldier. Now pregnant with their first child, she expected a peaceful country life with Aral Vorkosigan and their children. Instead, dying Emperor Ezar Vorbarra appointed Aral to rule Barrayar until Prince Gregor, four-year-old heir to the throne, could come of age.
Just months after Aral was sworn in, an attempt was made to kill him. Who would most benefit from killing the new Regent? Cetaganda? Komarr? A disgruntled Vor lord? Who will control Barrayar?
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Second novel in the popular SF Vorkosigan series. Cordelia Naismith has deserted her home planet and a career in astrocartography for her husband Aral Vorkosigan, who has just been appointed Regent of Barrayar by the dying Emperor. As Lord and Lady Vorkosigan, they struggle to establish stability in a fragile government thrown into confusion by the transition of power. When a palace coup endangers the government, their lives, and her unborn son, Cordelia takes action to secure the safety of her new family ... and her new home. Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award® Nominee
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Barrayar.......2007-09-29
The sequel to Cordelia's Honor and second in the Vorkosigan saga has Cordelia, Aral and the others fighting against a trader whose mad grab for power seems to be working. Cordelia has to keep her unborn baby safe while saving the planet.
This Hugo award winning novel lives up to its reputation mixing great story telling with unforgettable characters.
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-04
Countering coup.
Aral and Cordelia are married, and when the current bloke in charge carks it, he gets left in charge. All is not well however, as political opposition stages a coup, with leads to their damaged in the womb by poison attack son's environment being taken away, and the pair forced to go on the run and see what they can work out to set things write.
As the regent's wife, the more liberal Cordelia will have a changing effect on the Prince's upbringing compared to the status quo.
An adventure in ... adventure!.......2006-09-23
I know this series has been out for a while but, I just had to do this one-size-fits-all review of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. First of all, if you haven't read this series, clear your calendar and just do it. Don't worry about reading it in any particular order either (by chronology or publication date). The first one of these books to find its way into your hands is the first one you should read. The only exception to this rule would be "A Civil Campaign," because of the gathering of all the old characters and extensive references to past events, you should save this one for the last. (How does she keep track of all this stuff?)
Miles Vorkosigan is the most unlikely hero you will ever meet. The deck was stacked against him before he was born. He's not big, or fast, or strong. His body is bent and his bones are weak thanks to a poison gas attack on his mother while she carried him. All he has is his brain. But what a brain! His brain is a hyperactive trouble magnet with an uncanny ability to land him directly in the center of every whirlwind of danger he comes across. Fortunately this remarkable brain is smart enough to get him out of trouble time and again as well.
Set in mankind's distant future where space fairing is routine and bio-technology has produced many wonders, Miles Vorkosigan engages valiantly in the struggle to protect his home world of Barrayar and its imperium from the plots of its neighboring planetary systems. Born into the Vor aristocracy of Barrayar, Mile is an outcast on his home world due to his deformities. Nonetheless, he manages to rise to the occasion and find a place for himself and his talents in the highest levels of the empire.
The combination of high tech space adventure and old world political intrigue makes this series stand out. The characters are at once deeply human and vividly rendered in a writing style that envelopes the reader. As I have said before, you don't read one of Lois McMaster Bujold's books; you enter her world (worlds in this case). Each and every one of the books in this series is witty, emotionally deep, sexy, and mildly disturbing. In other words, perfect. If you haven't read this series yet you are in for a big treat. It gets my highest recommendation. Go ahead ... spoil yourself.
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Probably the best of the Vorkosigan series.......2006-03-14
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan universe obviously struck a cord with the people who vote for the best science fiction novels of the year. Four of them, The Vor Game, Falling Free, Mirror Dance, and this book all won a major award. I have not read Mirror Dance (yet), but of the other three, this book is the best of them. There is something more mature about the story, and the storytelling is more compelling.
Perhaps it is just me, but the story of Lady Vorkosigan, the former Captain Naismith from the planet Beta, is more interesting than that of her son Miles (the hero of most of Bujold's novels). Since she is an outsider (as are we, the readers) in the world of Barrayaran customs, we get a handy tour guide. She also seeks the same explanations we do when the twisted Barrayaran honour system kicks in, and these exchanges greatly enhance the reader's experience of Bujold's fictitious universe.
For those that need a road map: this is a prequel novel, taking place about 20 years before the events of Bujold's other novels in the series. The main characters are many we have met before: Miles's parents, his cousin the Emporer (here a child of 5 years), his security chief Illyan, and a number of others. The plot: the old Emporer has died leaving his 5-year old grandson as the legal heir. Lord Vorkosigan (Miles's father) becomes Regent, much to the chagrin of some of the other Vor lords who were vying for more power. Ultimately, a power play takes place with a palace coup engineered by one of the other Vor lords.
Like the recent Star Wars prequel trilogy, fans of the series will not find much suspense in the overall arc of the story. Many of the main characters are in later Vorkosigan books, so there's no life/death suspense there (of course, those that haven't read the books that were published earlier but take place later in the universe's timeline won't suffer this problem). Again, just as we knew that Anakin would become Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars Episode III, we also know that Miles survives the gas attack and whatever else might befall him in his fetal state. However, it's not so much the destination but the journey that makes the book so compelling. Because it's so well written, and the characters so interesting, we are drawn in and turn the pages eagerly awaiting what will happen next.
I think there is one other reason why this book is better than others in the series: here we finally have the female author writing a female main character. There is something too ... touchy-feely about Miles that never quite rings true. He is sometimes a female-tinged carricature of a young man, which is not surprising, I suppose. In this book, the depth of feeling and the details in the female characters feel so much truer than any of her male characters.
For those that haven't read any of the other books in the series, don't listen to what the fans of the series tell you - you can jump in anywhere. This book can be readily enjoyed by anyone not familiar with the extended Vorkosigan universe. In fact, as the strongest of the series, I would actually recommend starting with this book.
Finishes the Story Arc Begun in Shards of Honor.......2005-12-19
To start with, if you haven't yet read Shards of Honor, the first novel in the tales of Miles Vorkosigan (even though it doesn't actually feature Miles, it's about how his parents met), STOP, go back and read it before approaching Barrayar. You'll be glad you did. These two novels, written seven years apart, tell one complete story arc. How that came to be is an interesting story.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar form the beginning of the Miles Vorkosigan series. (Bujold's novel Falling Free takes place within the same fictional universe but, being set approximately 200 years before Miles' birth, features none of the series' familiar characters. Eventually you'll want to read Falling Free, but it doesn't matter when; you can insert it into your Bujold reading experience anytime.) Shards of Honor is Bujold's first novel (not merely the first novel she ever sold, but the first she ever wrote, thus disproving the axiom, "All first novels are unsaleable trash"). She begins writing it in December 1982. In mid-'83, having worked through the Shards material and about a third into what would eventually become Barrayar, Bujold realizes her manuscript is becoming too long to submit as one book (the "wisdom" at the time being a thin manuscript is more likely to be picked off the slush pile than a thick one). Bujold finds a logical breaking point for her tale (Cordelia's arrival on Barrayar), puts it in final draft form, and mothballs the partially finished "rest of the story."
Bujold submits Shards and begins working on another book, The Warrior's Apprentice. She's about halfway through that when Shards comes back rejected with an editorial suggestion she tighten it up. She finishes Warrior's, then cuts about 80 pages out of Shards, giving her two good unpublished novels. In 1985, around the time she finishes her third novel, Ethan of Athos, Warrior's makes it over the transom at Baen, and suddenly she goes from unpublished wannabe to successful novelist with three books (Shards, Warrior's, Ethan) SOLD. Shards is published in 1986.
Fastforward to 1989. Bujold has written four more books, Falling Free, Brothers In Arms, Borders of Infinity (a short story collection), and The Vor Game. Then the program-book editor of Philcon, a long-established SF convention in Philadelphia, asks Bujold to do a short story or outtake to donate to their program book. Remembering the unfinished novel fragment of years before, she troops up into her attic, retrieves the pages, reads them and decides to complete it as a novel. After all, it's already a third finished, right? And in 1992, Barrayar won the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year.
Shards of Honor stars Captain Cordelia Naismith, commander of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force, and Captain Aral Vorkosigan, victim of a mutiny on his Barrayaran warship. Both stranded on an unexplored alien planet, officers on opposite sides of the Betan-Barrayaran War, they reach an agreement of honor: they will trust and rely on each other for survival as they travel across a planet seemingly intent on throwing all its resources into killing them before they can reach Aral's ship. And then there's the little problem of overcoming the mutineers.... In the process of their adventures, Cordelia and Aral fall in love.
Barrayar deals with her first experiences on that planet, leading up to the birth of her and Aral's son Miles (though there is an epilogue showing Miles at age five). Both Shards and Barrayar are told from Cordelia's perspective. Thereafter in this series Miles, with very few exceptions, takes center stage. Never again will Cordelia be the main character. But for these two books she emerges as one of the most well-realized, loving and vulnerable but still tough-as-nails female SF protagonists ever.
The next book in the series you'll want to read is The Warrior's Apprentice, which picks up Miles' life at age 17.
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Or just buy ..........2006-11-29
Or just buy cordelia's honor, which has both books in one ....
Finishes the Story Arc Begun in Shards of Honor.......2005-12-16
To start with, if you haven't yet read Shards of Honor, the first novel in the tales of Miles Vorkosigan (even though it doesn't actually feature Miles, it's about how his parents met), STOP, go back and read it before approaching Barrayar. You'll be glad you did. These two novels, written seven years apart, tell one complete story arc. How that came to be is an interesting story.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar form the beginning of the Miles Vorkosigan series. (Bujold's novel Falling Free takes place within the same fictional universe but, being set approximately 200 years before Miles' birth, features none of the series' familiar characters. Eventually you'll want to read Falling Free, but it doesn't matter when; you can insert it into your Bujold reading experience anytime.) Shards of Honor is Bujold's first novel (not merely the first novel she ever sold, but the first she ever wrote, thus disproving the axiom, "All first novels are unsaleable trash"). She begins writing it in December 1982. In mid-'83, having worked through the Shards material and about a third into what would eventually become Barrayar, Bujold realizes her manuscript is becoming too long to submit as one book (the "wisdom" at the time being a thin manuscript is more likely to be picked off the slush pile than a thick one). Bujold finds a logical breaking point for her tale (Cordelia's arrival on Barrayar), puts it in final draft form, and mothballs the partially finished "rest of the story."
Bujold submits Shards and begins working on another book, The Warrior's Apprentice. She's about halfway through that when Shards comes back rejected with an editorial suggestion she tighten it up. She finishes Warrior's, then cuts about 80 pages out of Shards, giving her two good unpublished novels. In 1985, around the time she finishes her third novel, Ethan of Athos, Warrior's makes it over the transom at Baen, and suddenly she goes from unpublished wannabe to successful novelist with three books (Shards, Warrior's, Ethan) SOLD. Shards is published in 1986.
Fastforward to 1989. Bujold has written four more books, Falling Free, Brothers In Arms, Borders of Infinity (a short story collection), and The Vor Game. Then the program-book editor of Philcon, a long-established SF convention in Philadelphia, asks Bujold to do a short story or outtake to donate to their program book. Remembering the unfinished novel fragment of years before, she troops up into her attic, retrieves the pages, reads them and decides to complete it as a novel. After all, it's already a third finished, right? And in 1992, Barrayar won the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year.
Shards of Honor stars Captain Cordelia Naismith, commander of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force, and Captain Aral Vorkosigan, victim of a mutiny on his Barrayaran warship. Both stranded on an unexplored alien planet, officers on opposite sides of the Betan-Barrayaran War, they reach an agreement of honor: they will trust and rely on each other for survival as they travel across a planet seemingly intent on throwing all its resources into killing them before they can reach Aral's ship. And then there's the little problem of overcoming the mutineers.... In the process of their adventures, Cordelia and Aral fall in love.
Barrayar deals with her first experiences on that planet, leading up to the birth of her and Aral's son Miles (though there is an epilogue showing Miles at age five). Both Shards and Barrayar are told from Cordelia's perspective. Thereafter in this series Miles, with very few exceptions, takes center stage. Never again will Cordelia be the main character. But for these two books she emerges as one of the most well-realized, loving and vulnerable but still tough-as-nails female SF protagonists ever.
The next book in the series you'll want to read is The Warrior's Apprentice, which picks up Miles' life at age 17.
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- Possibly the best of the Vorkosigan series
- Finishes the Story Arc Begun in Shards of Honor
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Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Possibly the best of the Vorkosigan series.......2006-03-14
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan universe obviously struck a cord with the people who vote for the best science fiction novels of the year. Four of them, The Vor Game, Falling Free, Mirror Dance, and this book all won a major award. I have not read Mirror Dance (yet), but of the other three, this book is the best of them. There is something more mature about the story, and the storytelling is more compelling.
Perhaps it is just me, but the story of Lady Vorkosigan, the former Captain Naismith from the planet Beta, is more interesting than that of her son Miles (the hero of most of Bujold's novels). Since she is an outsider (as are we, the readers) in the world of Barrayaran customs, we get a handy tour guide. She also seeks the same explanations we do when the twisted Barrayaran honour system kicks in, and these exchanges greatly enhance the reader's experience of Bujold's fictitious universe.
For those that need a road map: this is a prequel novel, taking place about 20 years before the events of Bujold's other novels in the series. The main characters are many we have met before: Miles's parents, his cousin the Emporer (here a child of 5 years), his security chief Illyan, and a number of others. The plot: the old Emporer has died leaving his 5-year old grandson as the legal heir. Lord Vorkosigan (Miles's father) becomes Regent, much to the chagrin of some of the other Vor lords who were vying for more power. Ultimately, a power play takes place with a palace coup engineered by one of the other Vor lords.
Like the recent Star Wars prequel trilogy, fans of the series will not find much suspense in the overall arc of the story. Many of the main characters are in later Vorkosigan books, so there's no life/death suspense there (of course, those that haven't read the books that were published earlier but take place later in the universe's timeline won't suffer this problem). Again, just as we knew that Anakin would become Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars Episode III, we also know that Miles survives the gas attack and whatever else might befall him in his fetal state. However, it's not so much the destination but the journey that makes the book so compelling. Because it's so well written, and the characters so interesting, we are drawn in and turn the pages eagerly awaiting what will happen next.
I think there is one other reason why this book is better than others in the series: here we finally have the female author writing a female main character. There is something too ... touchy-feely about Miles that never quite rings true. He is sometimes a female-tinged carricature of a young man, which is not surprising, I suppose. In this book, the depth of feeling and the details in the female characters feel so much truer than any of her male characters.
For those that haven't read any of the other books in the series, don't listen to what the fans of the series tell you - you can jump in anywhere. This book can be readily enjoyed by anyone not familiar with the extended Vorkosigan universe. In fact, as the strongest of the series, I would actually recommend starting with this book.
Finishes the Story Arc Begun in Shards of Honor.......2005-12-19
To start with, if you haven't yet read Shards of Honor, the first novel in the tales of Miles Vorkosigan (even though it doesn't actually feature Miles, it's about how his parents met), STOP, go back and read it before approaching Barrayar. You'll be glad you did. These two novels, written seven years apart, tell one complete story arc. How that came to be is an interesting story.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar form the beginning of the Miles Vorkosigan series. (Bujold's novel Falling Free takes place within the same fictional universe but, being set approximately 200 years before Miles' birth, features none of the series' familiar characters. Eventually you'll want to read Falling Free, but it doesn't matter when; you can insert it into your Bujold reading experience anytime.) Shards of Honor is Bujold's first novel (not merely the first novel she ever sold, but the first she ever wrote, thus disproving the axiom, "All first novels are unsaleable trash"). She begins writing it in December 1982. In mid-'83, having worked through the Shards material and about a third into what would eventually become Barrayar, Bujold realizes her manuscript is becoming too long to submit as one book (the "wisdom" at the time being a thin manuscript is more likely to be picked off the slush pile than a thick one). Bujold finds a logical breaking point for her tale (Cordelia's arrival on Barrayar), puts it in final draft form, and mothballs the partially finished "rest of the story."
Bujold submits Shards and begins working on another book, The Warrior's Apprentice. She's about halfway through that when Shards comes back rejected with an editorial suggestion she tighten it up. She finishes Warrior's, then cuts about 80 pages out of Shards, giving her two good unpublished novels. In 1985, around the time she finishes her third novel, Ethan of Athos, Warrior's makes it over the transom at Baen, and suddenly she goes from unpublished wannabe to successful novelist with three books (Shards, Warrior's, Ethan) SOLD. Shards is published in 1986.
Fastforward to 1989. Bujold has written four more books, Falling Free, Brothers In Arms, Borders of Infinity (a short story collection), and The Vor Game. Then the program-book editor of Philcon, a long-established SF convention in Philadelphia, asks Bujold to do a short story or outtake to donate to their program book. Remembering the unfinished novel fragment of years before, she troops up into her attic, retrieves the pages, reads them and decides to complete it as a novel. After all, it's already a third finished, right? And in 1992, Barrayar won the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year.
Shards of Honor stars Captain Cordelia Naismith, commander of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force, and Captain Aral Vorkosigan, victim of a mutiny on his Barrayaran warship. Both stranded on an unexplored alien planet, officers on opposite sides of the Betan-Barrayaran War, they reach an agreement of honor: they will trust and rely on each other for survival as they travel across a planet seemingly intent on throwing all its resources into killing them before they can reach Aral's ship. And then there's the little problem of overcoming the mutineers.... In the process of their adventures, Cordelia and Aral fall in love.
Barrayar deals with her first experiences on that planet, leading up to the birth of her and Aral's son Miles (though there is an epilogue showing Miles at age five). Both Shards and Barrayar are told from Cordelia's perspective. Thereafter in this series Miles, with very few exceptions, takes center stage. Never again will Cordelia be the main character. But for these two books she emerges as one of the most well-realized, loving and vulnerable but still tough-as-nails female SF protagonists ever.
The next book in the series you'll want to read is The Warrior's Apprentice, which picks up Miles' life at age 17.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Finishes the Story Arc Begun in Shards of Honor.......2005-12-19
To start with, if you haven't yet read Shards of Honor, the first novel in the tales of Miles Vorkosigan (even though it doesn't actually feature Miles, it's about how his parents met), STOP, go back and read it before approaching Barrayar. You'll be glad you did. These two novels, written seven years apart, tell one complete story arc. How that came to be is an interesting story.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar form the beginning of the Miles Vorkosigan series. (Bujold's novel Falling Free takes place within the same fictional universe but, being set approximately 200 years before Miles' birth, features none of the series' familiar characters. Eventually you'll want to read Falling Free, but it doesn't matter when; you can insert it into your Bujold reading experience anytime.) Shards of Honor is Bujold's first novel (not merely the first novel she ever sold, but the first she ever wrote, thus disproving the axiom, "All first novels are unsaleable trash"). She begins writing it in December 1982. In mid-'83, having worked through the Shards material and about a third into what would eventually become Barrayar, Bujold realizes her manuscript is becoming too long to submit as one book (the "wisdom" at the time being a thin manuscript is more likely to be picked off the slush pile than a thick one). Bujold finds a logical breaking point for her tale (Cordelia's arrival on Barrayar), puts it in final draft form, and mothballs the partially finished "rest of the story."
Bujold submits Shards and begins working on another book, The Warrior's Apprentice. She's about halfway through that when Shards comes back rejected with an editorial suggestion she tighten it up. She finishes Warrior's, then cuts about 80 pages out of Shards, giving her two good unpublished novels. In 1985, around the time she finishes her third novel, Ethan of Athos, Warrior's makes it over the transom at Baen, and suddenly she goes from unpublished wannabe to successful novelist with three books (Shards, Warrior's, Ethan) SOLD. Shards is published in 1986.
Fastforward to 1989. Bujold has written four more books, Falling Free, Brothers In Arms, Borders of Infinity (a short story collection), and The Vor Game. Then the program-book editor of Philcon, a long-established SF convention in Philadelphia, asks Bujold to do a short story or outtake to donate to their program book. Remembering the unfinished novel fragment of years before, she troops up into her attic, retrieves the pages, reads them and decides to complete it as a novel. After all, it's already a third finished, right? And in 1992, Barrayar won the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year.
Shards of Honor stars Captain Cordelia Naismith, commander of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force, and Captain Aral Vorkosigan, victim of a mutiny on his Barrayaran warship. Both stranded on an unexplored alien planet, officers on opposite sides of the Betan-Barrayaran War, they reach an agreement of honor: they will trust and rely on each other for survival as they travel across a planet seemingly intent on throwing all its resources into killing them before they can reach Aral's ship. And then there's the little problem of overcoming the mutineers.... In the process of their adventures, Cordelia and Aral fall in love.
Barrayar deals with her first experiences on that planet, leading up to the birth of her and Aral's son Miles (though there is an epilogue showing Miles at age five). Both Shards and Barrayar are told from Cordelia's perspective. Thereafter in this series Miles, with very few exceptions, takes center stage. Never again will Cordelia be the main character. But for these two books she emerges as one of the most well-realized, loving and vulnerable but still tough-as-nails female SF protagonists ever.
The next book in the series you'll want to read is The Warrior's Apprentice, which picks up Miles' life at age 17.
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Cordelia Naismith, legendary ship commander in the Betan Expeditionary Force, a woman who beat the Barrayaran militarists at their own game, was never one to fulfill stereotypes. Having married the commander of the forces her side defeated in battle, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life devoted to raising little Vor lordlings, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But Cordelia had not paid sufficient attention to what an important Vor lord she had married; when the Emperor died, only her husband's reputation for honor stood between her adopted planet and the unspeakable horrors of a dynastic civil war fought by first-rate soldiers armed with up-to-the-minute technology. Aral Vorkosigan had little choice but to take up the burden of Regency -- as Cordelia had little choice but to support him in his decison. But neither of them realized the part Cordelia -- and her unborn son -- would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy.
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Saga o Majlze Forkosigane - odin iz samykh populyarnykh tsiklov v istorii mirovoj fantastki. V tom ''Barrayar'' voshli romany ''Oskolki chesti'', ''Barrayar'', ''Uchenik voina'', ''Igra forov''.
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Vselennaya Lois Makmaster Budzhold eto Vselennaya moguschestven-nykh superderzhav i dolgikh, zhestokikh vojn. Vselennaya tonkoj politiche-skoj igry i izoschrennykh pridvornykh intrig. I, konechno zhe, samoe glav
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"Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind," says Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Commenting on a 13th-century Tibetan text of instructions and practical advice for everyday spiritual living, Lama Zopa Rinpoche literally teaches us how to be happy when we are not, by bringing about the changes in attitude that permit us to live a happy and relaxed life in which external circumstances no longer rule us. In Transforming Problems Into Happiness, Lama Zopa Rinpoche brings his own special flavor or contemporary relevance to a timeless teaching on Buddhist psychology. This volume will be valuable to everyone, whatever their religious or spiritual background.
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Not practical.......2007-04-11
I wanted to like this book, but didn't find anything practical about it. The premise is great, turn your problems into ways for personal growth, but HOW? Never go that far, so no real practical value for me.
TRANSFORMING PROBLEMS INTO HAPPINESS.......2004-10-11
AS A TEACHER, THIS IS A 'REQUIRED READING' WHEN I AM ABLE TO
WEAVE THE TOPIC OF 'HAPPINESS' INTO ANY COURSE ! THE FOREWARD BY HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA SHARES IMPORTANT FOCUS ON TOPIC OF HAPPINESS.
IT IS TRUE THAT EVERYONE WHO DOES READ THIS BOOK AS A 'REQUIRED READING' ... ADMITS TO READING THIS MAGNIFICENT SIMPLIED 'WAY' MANY MORE TIMES,BY CHOICE, AND, I AM TOLD REFER TO THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY... WHICH I DO ALSO... WHAT WAS
ESPECIALLY VALUED WAS THE 'GLOSSARY' OF TERMS WHICH ARE USED THROUGHOUT THE BOOK; ALONG WITH, THE SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS ONE COULD EXPLORE. STILL STUDYING THE 'COURSE IN MIRACLES' ~ JOEL GOLDSMITH AND WALTER STARCKE WISDOMS, THIS INSPIRING BOOK ELEVATED MY ABILITY TO WELCOME ...'WHAT IS'... AND NEVER LABEL ANYTHING! HAPPINESS IS THE WAY... AS DR. WAYNE DYER TEACHES (ANOTHER FAVORITE AUTHOR). PLEASE DON'T MISS ADDING THIS TO 'YOUR WAY' ~ WITH PEACE IN EVERY STEP FORWARD ~ THIS IS MY FIRST RATING BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF LETTING YOU KNOW!
Wow!.......2004-02-29
What is the first noble truth set forth by the Buddha Shakyamuni? That we all suffer! We face trials and tribulations all throughout this human experience. Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how to successfully deal with such adversity, and as the title suggests, transform this into joyful experience.
It's essential, Rinpoche highlights, to be prepared for unhappy situations before they ever occur. Having the capacity to use these afflictions as a basis for cultivation of wisdom and happiness is a pretty difficult task. Lama Zopa makes no secret of it. But with previous training we can all straightforwardly apply the teachings of the Buddha to transform these afflictions via our practice. We must in a concrete way realize that our life's problems, beyond any doubt, are the necessary conditions required for a quality life and meaningful practice. The only way we can receive continuous happiness in our lives is from our misgivings and misfortune.
Lama Zopa points out that the idea the problem is an affliction is the one and only boundary holding your confines in misery, looking wan tingly into the field of joy and happiness. In that sort of state, there is no way we can transform the affliction into practice. So acknowledging that these problems are a true friend in our Buddhist practice, is the first essential step towards liberation. This book really helped me through some rough points not so long ago. Even though I knew what Lama Zopa was expressing long before reading this work, it was a bright and gentle reminder to employ what I knew to be the medicine into actual practice. When I did, I experienced vast relief. Buy this book, it can do wonders for you in your practice.
Powerful, Transformative Teachings!.......2004-01-31
This brilliant, powerful book is not the sort that's just to be read once. If you keep this book with you like a companion in your journey through life then it will serve as a great support and comfort. When you're going through good times, it will remind you to enjoy them without attachments or illusions. And, especially during difficult times, if you listen to its wise counsel, then it will comfort you and help you to find great strength, confidence and even joy!
Limited in scope.......2002-04-13
We have here a short guide to traditional Tibetan methods for developing what Americans know as the Power of Positive Thinking. The idea seems to be that one or more of these many techniques will work for you. The style is vigorous and very enthusiastic, with some of the charm of a foreign way of speaking. You can read through the whole book very fast, but it is an instruction manual, so you really need to try a few of the methods and see how you do. Worth a look!
Book Description
Perhaps no other figure of Tibetan Buddhism today is so committed to the contemporary relevance of its traditional views as Lama Zopa. In Dear Lama Zopa, he shares letters from advice-seekers around the globe, each reproduced with his always inspired, often surprising replies. Lama Zopa’s counsel, radical as it may seem, is all about how to handle life’s problems big and small, age-old and modern: from final exams, depression, and eating disorders to jealousy, aging, and loss. The key is to consciously work to perceive our problems differently, and in so doing see that we can be victors, not victims. The result is what Lama Zopa has dedicated his life to: our real, persisting happiness.
Customer Reviews:
Practical Advice for Everyday Problems.......2007-07-15
This book is a collection of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's responses to some of the thousands of letters he receives asking for advice on how to deal with common problems such as dealing with sickness and death, raising children and coping with anger. While his advice is heavy on the practical side, the Lama also references mantra and meditative practices that are explained in the appendix. The inclusion of this information made this book a valuable tool in addressing my own issues. At times, the Lama's advice is quite humorous and this book is a joy to read.
Cultivating Compassion.......2007-06-23
This book is wonderful. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a Bodhisattva-in-training. Lama Zopa Rinpoche clearly shows us how to view our daily lives through the lens of compassion. Everything we encounter in life is a teaching on Bodhichitta.
Thank you, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, for your boundless compassion.
Debra Page
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