Surfing the Himalayas
About This Book
Surfing the Himalayas is a spiritual adventure that follows a young American snowboarder who travels to Nepal and unexpectedly encounters an enlightened Buddhist monk named Nicky — a teacher who turns out to be utterly unlike any spiritual figure the narrator had imagined. Over a series of unexpected encounters on the mountain and in quiet moments between runs, Nicky delivers genuine Buddhist teaching in the most unlikely classroom imaginable: a ski slope in the high Himalayas.
The teachings Nicky offers are authentic Buddhist philosophy presented through vivid, immediate narrative — covering impermanence, the nature of mind, karma and reincarnation, different schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and the real possibility of liberation in this very lifetime. Lenz uses the contrast between the extreme sport setting and the depth of the teaching to create an access point for Buddhist wisdom that reaches readers who might never open a traditional dharma text.
What You'll Learn
Readers will receive an engaging and genuinely accurate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist teaching through a compelling narrative setting, understand core Buddhist concepts including impermanence, karma, the nature of mind, and the different vehicles of Buddhist practice, learn why athletic flow states and meditative absorption are described by practitioners as having a similar phenomenological quality, and discover why the encounter with an authentic teacher — someone speaking from genuine realisation rather than theoretical knowledge — is considered so central to the Tibetan tradition.
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