Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison has been published as a fundraiser for Liberation Prison Project.

For the past twenty-five years LPP has been a lifeline for people in prison worldwide, who turned to it for Buddhist books and spiritual advice in an effort to find meaning in life when everything else was lost.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the spiritual director of the project, asked Ven. Robina Courtin, who ran it until 2009, to compile the more than 100 letters he had written over the years in response to people in prison who’d contacted him.

This compilation of riveting spiritual advice has been edited into a coherent narrative and covers all points of the path to enlightenment. The book is published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive and has been sponsored by The Bodhichitta Trust.

Direct and uncompromising, Rinpoche makes it crystal clear that being in prison is a perfect opportunity for developing the radical approach, perfected by all great Tibetan practitioners, of transforming despair and hopelessness into happiness and liberation.

Rinpoche tells the prisoners that their prison is nothing in comparison with the inner prisons of ordinary people, “the prison of anger, the prison of attachment, the prison of ignorance.”

The extent of the heartfelt compassion and love that Rinpoche offers the people who write to him is incredible. He empowers them to never give up on the development of their potential and their ability to help others.

This advice is not just for prisoners. It is for all of us.