Profound Mind
Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life
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| Author(s) : Dalai Lama and edited by Ven.Nicholas Vreeland. Afterword by Richard Gere |
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| ISBN : 0340951826 | | EAN : 9780340951828 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 160 | | Size : 216 x 136mm | | Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton | | Published : 2011 |
Category : Tibetan Buddhism: General
Category 2 : Tibetan Buddhism: Kadampa
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Synopsis:
The mind is central to all human experience. Whether one is in harmony with the world depends upon one's relative emotional and spiritual health. For this reason, the core teachings of Buddhism have always emphasized various forms of mind training.
In a Profound Mind, the Dalai Lama provides a succinct overview of the basic techniques of spiritual development in Tibetan Buddhism. Introducing several aspects of mind training, he combines the insights of traditional scholarship with his personal warmth and humanity.
The Dalai Lama visited New York in 2003 and gave a series of lectures, culminating in a public talk in Central Park, which drew over a quarter of a million people. Based on these lectures, this book provides instruction on how we can use meditation to realise the mind's phenomenal potential. His Holiness was invited by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Richard Gere's charitable organization to teach on emptiness and the meditative technique outlined in the Seven Points of Mind Training. The Dalai Lama was also invited back in 2007 to teach on the Diamond Cutter Sutra. Throughout all these teachings, translated here by Geshe Thubten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama sought not only to lead his listeners through the complexities of the Buddhist doctrine of selflessness, but to show them how to bring these teachings actively into their own lives.
"Perhaps the chief difference between Buddhism and the world's other major faith traditions lies in its presentation of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is affirmed in different ways by Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is not only firmly denied in Buddhism; belief in it is identified as the source of all our misery. The Buddhist path is fundamentally a process of learning to recognize the essential nonexistence of the self, while seeking to help others recognize it as well." ven.Nicholas Vreeland.
"Buddhists believe that we are responsible for the quality of our lives, our happiness, and our resources. In order to achieve a meaningful life we must transform our own emotions, as this is the most effective way to bring about future happiness for ourselves and for all others. No one can force us to transform our minds, not even the Buddha. We must do so voluntarily. Therefore Buddha stated, "You are your own master." The Dalai Lama. |
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