Open Your Heart,
Awaken Your Dignity

Awakening Dignity: A Guide to Living a Life of Deep Fulfillment is a Buddhist master’s guide to cultivate dignity through contemplation and meditation, which provides a new perspective on living a happy, healthy, and deeply fulfilling life.

What is Dignity?

The notion of dignity is crucial to the question of how best to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, particularly for today’s environment in which so many of us experience self-doubt, low self-esteem, and feelings of being trapped by anxiety, dissatisfaction, or even success. How, in such a circumstance, can we gain authentic and unshakeable dignity? In Awakening Dignity, Phakchok Rinpoche draws from the Tibetan Buddhist wisdom tradition to offer a unique and fresh approach to answer this question.

From the Buddhist perspective, dignity is an inherent quality of fundamental wholeness and completeness that we all naturally possess: our true nature is pure and our heart is noble. In this guide, Phakchok Rinpoche shows how knowing that we are whole and complete already—and gaining trust and certainty in that understanding—can counteract the common feeling that we are not enough, that something is missing.

Gaining unwavering trust in ourselves protects us from life’s ups and downs. With genuine dignity, we are not riddled with uncertainty, anxiety, or self-doubt. Rather, we are able to face any circumstance with confidence, clarity, and compassion.

Through reflections, examples, and simple meditations—such as embracing adversity and practicing compassion—Awakening Dignity provides all the tools necessary to fully embody our fundamental dignity.

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What People are Saying

  • “Awakening Dignity is a beautiful, compelling, and practical guide to living a more fulfilling life - meaning a life filled with inner dignity.”

    Richard J. Davidson - New York Times best-selling Author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain and Founding Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • “Phakchok Rinpoche is an emerging stakeholder of the Buddhadharma who has trained under some of the greatest teachers of the century.”

    Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - Author of The Guru Drinks Bourbon? and Living Is Dying

  • “I wholeheartedly recommend this book for all who wish to find happiness and fulfillment in their lives.”

    Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche - New York Times best-selling Author of The Joy of Living

  • “...this is a jewel of a text, and genuine medicine for what ails us..”

    Jan Willis PhD - Author of Dreaming Me - Black, Baptist, and Buddhist
    and Dharma Matters - Women, Race and Tantra

  • “Written with clarity and a pertinent connection to our daily lives, you don't need to be a Buddhist to gain insight from this lovely book.”

    Sharon Salzberg - Author of Lovingkindness and Real Change

  • “This highly accessible book will benefit any reader.”

    Tsoknyi Rinpoche - Author of Open Heart, Open Mind

  • “Readers will appreciate the accessible prose and the authors’ compassionate tone. This enlightening outing delivers.”

    Publishers Weekly

  • “An extraordinary and invaluable guide to life and practice by a meditation master whose great compassion has brought the dharma to our everyday lives.”

    Roshi Joan Halifax - Author of Standing at the Edge and Abbot of Upaya Zen Center

  • “To begin on the journey to realizing our inner dignity, we need an introduction, and this book is it.”

    Kit Des Lauriers - 2019 US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, two-time World Freeskiing Women’s Champion and author of Higher Love: Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits

  • “A hopeful and easily accessible handbook written with clarity and authenticity, for those interested in exploring Buddhist teachings or simply hoping to improve the quality of their own lives and the lives of others.”

    Library Journal

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MEET THE AUTHORS

Phakchok Rinpoche

Phakchok Rinpoche is a popular and beloved Tibetan Buddhist master with a teaching style that is at once unique, dynamic, and engaging. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rinpoche was recognized soon after birth—at the early age of one—as a reincarnated Buddhist master. Having undergone formal education and training in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, Rinpoche travels the world teaching in Buddhist centers, universities, and monasteries. With sharp insight into our contemporary global culture, he contextualizes and demonstrates the relevance of ancient meditative practice to our time.

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Sophie Wu

Sophie (Shu-chin) Wu - PhD, is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College. Trained in Chinese intellectual history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she teaches Asian history and philosophy, including Buddhism. As a longtime student of Buddhism, Sophie is a meditation instructor for Phakchok Rinpoche’s organization. She lives in Atlanta with her husband. In her (imaginary) free time, Sophie enjoys home-roasted coffee, nature hikes, and traveling.

  • Get to know the real you and be free from self-doubt, low self-esteem, and anxiety.

  • Connect with your most precious human qualities.

  • Simple exercises to cultivate dignity in your daily life.

  • Gain trust and certainty in your inner dignity so that you can be free in any circumstances.