“One of the most generous, beautiful, and essential books I've ever read — beautifully written, thoroughly engaging, so clear, so honest, so courageous and full of wisdom… This book has the potential to change the reader's life forever.” George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's experience begins the night he has chosen to embark on a four-year wandering retreat, slipping past the monastery gates. Alone for the first time in his life, he sets out into the unknown. His initial motivation is to step away from his life of privilege and to explore the deepest, most hidden aspects of his being, but what he discovers throughout his retreat — about himself and about the world around us — comes to define his meditation practice and teaching.
Just three weeks into his retreat, Rinpoche becomes deathly ill and his journey begins in earnest through this near-death experience. Moving, beautiful and suffused with local…
