Set Free
A Life-Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan
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Set Free
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Narrated by:
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Emma Slade
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By:
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Emma Slade
About this listen
Emma Slade was a high-flying debt analyst for a large investment bank when she was taken hostage in a hotel room on a business trip to Jakarta. She thought she was lucky to come out of it unscathed, but over the ensuing weeks and months, as the financial markets crashed, Emma became her own distressed asset as the trauma following the event took hold.
Realising her view on life had profoundly changed, she embarked upon a journey, discovering the healing power of yoga and, in Bhutan, opening her eyes to a kinder, more peaceful way of living.
From fast-paced city life to the stillness of Bhutan's Himalayan mountains, Set Free is the inspiring true story of Emma's astonishing life lived to extremes and all that that entails: work, travel, spirituality, Buddhism, relationships, and the underlying question of what makes a meaningful life.
©2017 Emma Slade (P)2017 Audible, LtdThis book will challenge your ideas about happiness!
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I already done some study about Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism in particular, as part of my inter cultural undergraduate studies.
Being married to a Bhutanese girl, having lived with my Bhutanese inlaws, who got stuck behind closed Covid inspired Australian borders for 2 years. My marriage, my children, my life are the embodiment of the tensions, challenges, exotic passion and romance between east and west, me being originally from Holland.
I therefore picked up this book in the hopes that i will learn more about Bhutan and their branch of Buddhism. I picked up this book in the hopes to understand, on a deeper level, my wife and her cultural traditions.
I was a bit frustrated. About half way through the book I nearly put it down, planning to forget about it. There was mo mention of Bhutan or Buddhism..I giggled with my wife: “i picked up a book about Bhutan and 13 chapters in... nothing hahaha” it was the delightful writing style of Emma that kept me engaged. It enabled my inner mind’s eye, as the words danced in my head as a mind movie.
When it comes to Buddhism, this book has been somewhat helpful. It gave me some things to reflect on and gave me some new key terms to research. Pointing me, potentially, in a new direction when it comes to my studies into Tibetan Buddhism. The book obviously wasn’t as in dept Compared to something written by Thurman, for example,
The book has inspired me to learn more about Bhutan. It has helped me fortify the plans to visit Thimphu later this year. It also gave me the feeling to learn more about Emma and her NGO. My wife is from Thimphu and worked their as a doctor for some time. If the names used in the book are the real once I believe my wife knows a few of these people. Anyhow its just a feeling, i often run before i can walk. So im trying to. forget about it .. for now.
In any case thank you for sharing your story and you have inspired me.
Thank you Pema Deki
warm regards Baz
Growing love for Bhutan
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Inspiring and moving
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