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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780743427081 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
How to Practice will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, maintaining mental tranquility, and more. Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this accessible book is a constant and daily companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome our everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive thinking. Imbued with His Holiness' vivacious spirit and sense of playfulness, How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama's own sage and very practical insight into the human psyche and what binds us all together.
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
How to Practice will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, maintaining mental tranquility, and more. Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this accessible book is a constant and daily companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome our everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive thinking. Imbued with His Holiness' vivacious spirit and sense of playfulness, How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama's own sage and very practical insight into the human psyche and what binds us all together.
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.vii
Introduction: The Need for Peace and Kindness
I. THE BASICS
1. Three Ways to Practice
II. PRACTICING MORALITY
2. Identifying the Scope of Suffering
3. Discovering How Trouble Starts and Stops
4. Refraining from Harm
5. Extending Help
6. Aspiring to Enlightenment
III. PRACTICING CONCENTRATED MEDITATION
7. Focusing the Mind
IV. PRACTICING WISDOM
8. Examining How Beings and Things Exist
9. The Middle Way
10. Mind and the Deep Nature of Mind
V. TANTRA
11. Deity Yoga
VI. STEPS ALONG THE WAY
12. Overview of the Path to Enlightenment
Selected Readings
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780743427081
- Subtitle:
- The Way to a Meaningful Life
- Editor:
- Hopkins, Jeffrey
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- Publisher:
- Atria Books
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Inspirational
- Subject:
- Buddhism
- Subject:
- Religious life
- Subject:
- Buddhism - General
- Subject:
- Buddhism - Tibetan
- Subject:
- Inspirational - General
- Subject:
- General Religion
- Copyright:
- 2002
- Series Volume:
- #3
- Publication Date:
- January 2002
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 7.54x5.16x1.00 in. .71 lbs.










