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Genre/Form: | Large type books |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV; Jeffrey Hopkins |
ISBN: | 9780786299171 0786299177 9781594152191 1594152195 140564348X 1405643498 9781405643481 9781405643498 |
OCLC Number: | 175286332 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2006. |
Description: | 297 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The need for insight -- Laying the ground for insight to grow -- Discovering the source of problems -- Why understanding the truth is needed -- How to undermine ignorance -- Feeling the impact of interrelatedness -- Appreciating the reasoning of dependent-arising -- Seeing the interdependence of phenomena -- Valuing dependent-arising and emptiness -- Harnessing the power of concentration and insight -- Focusing your mind -- Tuning your mind for meditation -- How to end self-deception -- Meditating on yourself first -- Realizing that you do not exist in and of yourself -- Determining the choices -- Analyzing oneness -- Analyzing difference -- Coming to a conclusion -- Testing your realization -- Extending this insight to what you own -- Balancing calm and insight -- How persons and things actually exist -- Viewing yourself as like an illusion -- Noticing how everything depends on thought -- Deepening love with insight -- Feeling empathy -- Reflecting on impermanence -- Absorbing yourself in ultimate love -- Appendix: Reviewing the meditative reflections. |
Responsibility: | His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. |
Abstract:
Based on a fundamental Buddhist notion that love and insight work together to bring about enlightenment, this title provides a perspective on the psychological problems of hurting ourselves through misguided, exaggerated notions of self, others, events and physical things.
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