A Profound Mind

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307952444
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profound Mind written by Dalai Lama and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism. Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is central in different ways to Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is actually denied in Buddhism. Even further, belief in a “self” is seen as the main source of our difficulties in life. Yet a true understanding of this teaching does not lead one to a despairing, cynical worldview with a sense that life has no meaning—Far from it, a genuine understanding leads to authentic happiness for an individual and the greatest source of compassion for others. In 2003 and in 2007, the Dalai Lama was invited to New York to give a series of talks on the essential Buddhist view of selflessness. This new book, the result of those talks, is now offered to help broaden awareness of this essential doctrine and its usefulness in living a more meaningful and happy life. While the Dalai Lama offers a full presentation of his teachings on these key philosophical points for contemplation, he also shows readers how to bring these teachings actively into their own lives with recommendations for a personal practice. It is only by actually living these teachings that we allow them to bring about a genuine transformation in our perception of ourselves and our lives A Profound Mind offers important wisdom for those committed to bringing about change in the world through developing their own spiritual capabilities, whether they are Buddhists or not.

Author : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340951828
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profound Mind written by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 emphasised various forms of mind training. In A Profound Mind, His Holiness 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. A Profound Mind shows us how to transform difficult situations into opportunities for spiritual growth.

Author : DALAI LAMA THE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444742367
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profound Mind (Indian Local Print) written by DALAI LAMA THE and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0385514689
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profound Mind written by Dalai Lama and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism. Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is central in different ways to Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is actually denied in Buddhism. Even further, belief in a “self” is seen as the main source of our difficulties in life. Yet a true understanding of this teaching does not lead one to a despairing, cynical worldview with a sense that life has no meaning—Far from it, a genuine understanding leads to authentic happiness for an individual and the greatest source of compassion for others. In 2003 and in 2007, the Dalai Lama was invited to New York to give a series of talks on the essential Buddhist view of selflessness. This new book, the result of those talks, is now offered to help broaden awareness of this essential doctrine and its usefulness in living a more meaningful and happy life. While the Dalai Lama offers a full presentation of his teachings on these key philosophical points for contemplation, he also shows readers how to bring these teachings actively into their own lives with recommendations for a personal practice. It is only by actually living these teachings that we allow them to bring about a genuine transformation in our perception of ourselves and our lives A Profound Mind offers important wisdom for those committed to bringing about change in the world through developing their own spiritual capabilities, whether they are Buddhists or not.

Author : Thubten Cnodron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614298610
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realizing the Profound View written by Thubten Cnodron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness. In Realizing the Profound View the Dalai Lama presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality. With attention to Nagarjuna’s five-point analysis, Candrakirti’s seven-point examination, and Pali sutras, the Dalai Lama leads us to investigate who or what is the person. Are we our body? Our mind? If we are not inherently either of them, how do we exist, and what carries the karma from one life to the next? As we explore these and other fascinating questions, he skillfully guides us along the path, avoiding the chasms of absolutism and nihilism, and introduces us to dependent arising. We find that although all persons and phenomena lack an inherent essence, they do exist dependently. This nominally imputed mere I carries the karmic seeds. We discover that all phenomena exist by being merely designated by term and concept—they appear as like illusions, unfindable under ultimate analysis but functioning on the conventional level. Furthermore, we come to understand that emptiness dawns as the meaning of dependent arising, and dependent arising dawns as the meaning of emptiness. The ability to posit subtle dependent arisings in the face of realizing emptiness and to establish ultimate and conventional truths as non-contradictory brings us to the culmination of the correct view. The second of three volumes on the nature of reality in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, Realizing the Profound View challenges the ways we view the self and the world, bringing us that much closer to liberation.

Author : His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603819
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind of Clear Light written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's "little death"). The stages are described so vividly that we can imagine the process of traveling deeper into the mind, on the ultimate journey of transformation. In this way, His Holiness shows us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, how to enrich our time on earth, die without fear or upset, and influence the stage between this life and the next so that we may gain the best possible incarnation. As always, the ultimate goal is to advance along the path to enlightenment. Advice on Dying is an essential tool for attaining that eternal bliss.

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1888375302
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Our Mind written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2002-02-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nautilus Award Finalist The renowned Zen’s monk’s profound study of Buddhist psychology—with insights into how these ancient teachings apply to the modern world Based on the fifty verses on the nature of consciousness taken from the great fifth-century Buddhist master Vasubandhu and the teachings of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Thich Nhat Hanh focuses on the direct experience of recognizing, embracing, and looking deeply into the nature of our feelings and perceptions. Presenting the basic teachings of Buddhist applied psychology, Understanding Our Mind shows us how our mind is like a field, where every kind of seed is planted—seeds of suffering, anger, happiness, and peace. The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds in our mind. If we know how to water seeds of joy and transform seeds of suffering, then understanding, love, and compassion will flower. Vietnamese Zen Master Thuong Chieu said, “When we understand how our mind works, the practice becomes easy.”

Author : Cynthia Attar
Publisher : CCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1927360943
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profound Mind Healing for Self, Others, Pets written by Cynthia Attar and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh boy, you've done it now. You asked for physical and mental self-healing and here it is Written just for you, this little gem of a book of mental gymnastics includes practical step-by-step techniques, tricks, secrets, and practices to create a life of wellness, balance, and happiness. Get ready to have your mind blown with highest insight that will certainly upgrade your thoughts and beliefs. Not only rich in self-hypnosis techniques, this book houses many mental tricks to heal/rebalance, to discover your own authority, and determine personal truth. Learning the best way to help others and your pets, this book will certainly make your mind-wheels spin into orbit Other gems inside this book include: Healing Through Distance, Self-Empowerment at its Best, Bedroom Tantrum Technique, Developing Your Mind Power, Advanced Healing Techniques, Smorgasbord of Food for Thought, Assisting Children, Animals, Plants, Step by Step Profound Mind Technique, Profound Insights for Living Life Happily, Aha Insights to Blast Through Plateaus, Incredible Truths You Already Knew, Sifting / Shielding / Bubble Wrap, Esoteric Side of "Accidents," Pet Healing Case Studies, Miracle Making Secrets, Root Cause Release, Responsible Living, Group Healing.

Author : Roger R. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614296014
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind Seeing Mind written by Roger R. Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts. Mahamudra, the “great seal,” refers to the ultimate nature of mind and reality, to a meditative practice for realizing that ultimate reality, and to the final fruition of buddhahood. It is especially prominent in the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, so it sometimes comes as a surprise that mahamudra has played an important role in the Geluk school, where it is part of a special transmission received in a vision by the tradition’s founder, Tsongkhapa. Mahamudra is a significant component of Geluk ritual and meditative life, widely studied and taught by contemporary masters such as the Dalai Lama. Roger Jackson’s Mind Seeing Mind offers us both a definitive scholarly study of the history, texts, and doctrines of Geluk mahamudra and masterful translations of its seminal texts. It provides a skillful survey of the Indian sources of the teaching, illuminates the place of mahamudra among Tibetan Buddhist schools, and details the history and major textual sources of Geluk mahamudra. Jackson also addresses critical questions, such as the relation between Geluk and Kagyü mahamudra, and places mahamudra in the context of contemporary religious studies. The translation portion of Mind Seeing Mind includes ten texts on mahamudra history, ritual, and practice. Among these are the First Panchen Lama’s root verses and autocommentary on mahamudra meditation, his ritual masterpiece Offering to the Guru, and a selection of his songs of spiritual experience. Mind Seeing Mind adds considerably to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality and shows how mahamudra came to be woven throughout the fabric of the Geluk tradition.

Author : Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520243460
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art written by Jacquelynn Baas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eminently readable and extremely meaningful. The contributors tackle essential questions about the relationship of art and life. The book is also very timely, offering a way to approach Buddhism through unexpected channels."--Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University