A White Conch Spiraling Towards Happiness

On the outskirts of the dusty, bustling city of Kathmandu lies the town of Boudhanath, home to one of the most sacred Buddhist sites, the famed Jarung Khashor stupa. A few minutes walk up the hill north of the stupa sits a yogi, resting in the expanse of mind's natural luminosity. Gazing down at the stupa, poetry spontaneously erupts from the interplay of this masters expansive view, the blessings of the stupa, and waves of devotion.

This yogi's name is Sangngak Tenzin Rinpoche and these are his poems. The words hem are not written from a place of striving or effort. They naturally come and go just like the rest of this phenomenal world. Yet, these poems contain something special—a glimpse through the window of our mind's true nature, a flash of gold in the form of spiritual instructions, the elegant form of a goddess painted on water. These are some of the jewels you can find in A White Conch Spiraling Towards Happiness. So please come and join Sangngak Tenzin Rinpoche on the path to happiness as the auspicious white conch shell resounds with song and poetry.

The true aim of this little bilingual Tibetan-English book by the name of Towards Happiness is more than just a simple celebration of happiness. Instead, it aims to allow actual, living people to connect with the sublime Dharma and enjoy it on your path into the future. Through the authentic practices of study, contemplation, and meditation, you can become introduced to the fact that, beyond the confused aspect of your conceptual mind, there is nothing that truly exists—it is like medicine for sickness and the appearance of birth and death in a dream as a remedy for old age and death. As you eliminate the fear of death, you embark upon the path where happiness spirals, growing ever more—more joyful than the first half of life is the latter half, more joyful than the latter half is the moment of death, more joyful than the moment of dead* is the intermediate state, more joyful than the intermediate state is your future life, and so on. As you listen to the oral instructions of your qualified masters and sublime gurus again and again, you gain conceptual understanding, direct experience, and final realization. Completing the path in this way you attain the state of awakening. This is what we need and this is the ultimate aim of this book It is with this that I, Sangngak Tenzin, humbly offer auspicious prayers that you, dear readers, may make this human body meaningful and have happiness and wellbeing in this and future lives.

**Contents and Sample Pages**