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Chod Practice Demystified

Chod is the Tibetan practice of severing attachment by ritually offering the self, and Baal Kadmon's Chod Practice Demystified makes its logic available to non-specialists. The explanatory chapters cover what Chod is, who practiced it and when, the devils of ego fixation and how attachments form, the subconscious mind, the shadow self, and a worked example of how an attachment takes hold. The middle of the book is the severing itself: hungry ghosts of the mind and experiments in Chod practice. From there Kadmon brings in the figures who support the work, with chapters on Tara for opening the heart to compassion, Mahakala for inner strength and power, Amoghasiddhi for wisdom, the Medicine Buddha for health, Kalachakra for protection, and Jambhala for wealth and abundance. Readers drawn to Tibetan Buddhism's direct confrontation with fear and death, but who want the ideas unpacked in plain language, will find this a workable entry point.

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