Unreasonable Joy: Awakening through Trikaya Buddhism
Enlightenment is real. It exists right now, within you.
Unreasonable Joy: Awakening through Trikaya Buddhism, points the way towards 
Enlightenment and liberation from suffering. We suffer through tragedies and the daily grind of eat-work-sleep, chasing happiness but finding fleeting pleasure. Built on the foundations of ancient wisdom, a new school called Trikaya Buddhism promises freedom from the suffering of this wearisome cycle. Unreasonable Joy captures Buddha’s advanced Tantric teachings and puts them into an American form of Buddhism designed for the modern world. In this book, you will learn:
- Simple meditation techniques that can be used anywhere, at any time, to calm, strengthen, and refocus the mind
- How to gain control of your time, life, and mind by releasing the mental and physical habits that create suffering
- Build self-trust and discover how to use everything as fuel for spiritual growth
- How to release yourself from the limiting beliefs that blind you to your true nature
- How to focus on the inner work of changing yourself, not the external world
Unreasonable Joy contains proven techniques that the author, Turīya, has taught thousands of people over a 25-year career. The nine lessons explore the power of meditation, mindfulness, karma, emotions, and humility. Turīya provides essays, poems, and stories that ground the esoteric teachings in the world, and Practice Pointers show you how to incorporate them into daily life. Adorned with traditional Tibetan thangka art, the pages invite you into the powerful silence of meditation instantly. Unreasonable Joy gently encourages you to do the work needed to directly experience the ecstasy of existence and recognize who you truly are.
Reviews
A beautiful work of kindness and compassion
– Master Artist Pema Rinzin, New York Tibetan Art Studio
Unreasonable Joy is a great resource for those who are just starting to meditate, and for those who have been on a spiritual path for many years. Keep it on your bookshelf and pull it down whenever you need encouragement or wisdom on your spiritual journey.
– Rizwan Virk, author of The Simulation Hypothesis and Zen Entrepreneurship
Reading the pages of Unreasonable Joy, I felt lifted into a treasure-trove of higher teachings, realizations, and love. Turīya writes about and creates experiences that are the essence of Buddhism. She soars with beautiful writing and insight to help all of us overcome obstacles, wherever we may be on the path. I truly enjoyed this book and deeply appreciated the skill, generosity, and empowerments that this book embodies.
– Liz Lewinson, author of American Buddhist Rebel and The Power of the Loving Man
Unreasonable Joy is truly a gentle and delightful book, and very accessible to beginners. The questions for pondering at the end of each chapter are helpful! I am impressed by the Preface, which gives a short introduction of Turīya’s background and lineage. I also like the fact that the author took the time to clarify some language, such as the term “God.” It is little details like this that shows her loving care about the book and her students. Let me just say that I love this book!
– Kenneth S. Leong, author of The Zen Teachings of Jesus
Unreasonable Joy is a roadmap to spiritual awakening and true happiness!
– Rosleen Reynolds, meditation teacher
I have been following the path of Trikaya Buddhism with Turīya for over a decade and it works. Her book Unreasonable Joy is a wealth of knowledge with practical insightful tips on meditation, mindfulness and how to live a life of Joy. I would recommend this book to beginners and advanced practitioners looking for a modern take on Buddhism.
– Michael Hosking, RN
Unreasonable Joy is instructive yet autobiographical, making it genuine, relatable, and transformative. A reference and a guide to self-discovery and meditation, this book is suitable to launch a beginner into the world of self-discovery while also enhancing the wisdom of those familiar with the path. For immediate insights you can open the book randomly as part of a daily practice. Yet as a sequential read it takes you on a journey, the end of which returns full circle to the beginning where the primary instruction is understood at a much deeper level. Thus, this companion can accompany you for some time, wherever you are on your journey.
– Dhyāna, meditation teacher
Unreasonable Joy is a powerful and practical book that gives you effective tools to address every aspect of your life! This is a great handbook for living and working in the world today, with relevant topics to address one’s mental, emotional, and physical states. Whether you have a personal meditation practice or not, this book guides you on the inner workings of Mind so that greater peace, clarity, and balance can enter your life.
-Hui Reccow, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at MAYFrog Therapy
What a wonderful, gentle reminder of what it takes to be centered, calm and live presently. Personally, the biggest benefit came from the humility chapter and the exercise’s given were very effective. We can all benefit from a newer, brighter relationship with ourselves, our community and the Universe. Thank you for putting your words into practical language for us to follow and guiding us through Practice Pointers. This is a tremendous opportunity you have given everyone who reads Unreasonable Joy to make their road to Enlightenment more attainable.
– Connie Youngblood, Medium, HHP, owner of Equanimity Massage
Reviews from GoodReads
4.9 rating based on 9 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10:
ISBN-13: 9781952753008
Goodreads: 55428025
Author(s): Publisher: Electric Bliss Publishing
Published: 10/27/2020
Enlightenment is real. It exists right now, within you.
Unreasonable Joy: Awakening through Trikaya Buddhism, points the way towards Enlightenment and liberation from suffering. We suffer through tragedies and the daily grind of eat-work-sleep, chasing happiness but finding fleeting pleasure. Built on the foundations of ancient wisdom, a new school called Trikaya Buddhism promises freedom from the suffering of this wearisome cycle. Unreasonable Joy captures Buddha’s advanced Tantric teachings and puts them into an American form of Buddhism designed for the modern world. In this book, you will learn:
-Simple meditation techniques that can be used anywhere, at any time, to calm, strengthen, and refocus the mind
-How to gain control of your time, life, and mind by releasing the mental and physical habits that create sufferin
-Build self-trust and discover how to use everything as fuel for spiritual growth
-How to release yourself from the limiting beliefs that blind you to your true nature
-How to focus on the inner work of changing yourself, not the external world
Unreasonable Joy contains proven techniques that the author, Turīya, has taught thousands of people over a 25-year career. The nine lessons explore the power of meditation, mindfulness, karma, emotions, and humility. Turīya provides essays, poems, and stories that ground the esoteric teachings in the world, and Practice Pointers show you how to incorporate them into daily life. Adorned with traditional Tibetan thangka art, the pages invite you into the powerful silence of meditation instantly. Unreasonable Joy gently encourages you to do the work needed to directly experience the ecstasy of existence and recognize who you truly are.
To all who seek an end to self-suffering, look no further. Simply allow the beautifully profound yet practical teachings of Turīya within Unreasonable Joy to enter and improve your life today!
– Tommy Garry, Lead Vendor Support Analyst at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Unreasonable Joy is a wonderful book. Turiya presents a vision of Buddhism that is practical and centered in positivity. Turiya is a wise teacher with a lot to say. This is a book that would be very good for beginners, but also helpful to experienced people that just want to turn their minds and see things in a slightly different way.
– Daniel Scharpenburg, meditation teacher and author of many books including The Diamond Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
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