Intimately and without jargon how to wake up a buddhist inspired guide to navigating joy and sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of lifes ups and downs using step by step instructions the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow this opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances actively engaging . Intimately and without jargon how to wake up a buddhist inspired guide to navigating joy and sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of lifes ups and downs using step by step instructions. Intimately and without jargon how to wake up a buddhist inspired guide to navigating joy and sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of lifes ups and downs using step by step instructions. Toni bernhard is the author of the award winning how to be sick a buddhist inspired guide for the chronically ill and their caregivers and how to wake up a buddhist inspired guide to navigating joy and sorrowuntil forced to retire due to illness toni was a law professor at the university of california davis serving six years as the dean of students. Intimately and without jargon how to wake up a buddhist inspired guide to navigating joy and sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of lifes ups and downs using step by step instructions the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow