A dharma friend giving good advice.
We are not broken.
Most of us do not come to meditation because life is easy. We come because something has shaken us—and because the ways we have learned to cope no longer seem enough.
Ten Ways to Awaken offers a clear, contemporary introduction to Buddhist practice for modern life. Through ten insights discovered not as abstract ideas, but through lived experience—from impermanence and the conditioned nature of the mind to working with thoughts and emotions, karma, suffering, and the illusion of a fixed, separate self—it offers a practical map for seeing more clearly, suffering less, and responding to life with greater wisdom and compassion.
This is not a book written from a mountaintop. Ramiro López Larroy came to meditation not through spiritual seeking, but during a painful period that forced him to question how he was living. He writes not as a master, but as a fellow traveler, grounding each insight in the places where life actually happens: the urge to check the phone, the argument replaying in your head, the pause before reacting, the moment you truly see the person in front of you.
Free of dense doctrine, formulas, and promises of becoming a better version of yourself, Ten Ways to Awaken is an honest and accessible doorway into the Dharma—for anyone new to meditation, curious about Buddhism but intimidated by traditional texts, or simply tired of living on autopilot.
A companion in the spirit of a dharma friend giving good advice.
With a foreword by meditation teacher Bart van Melik.
