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The heart of meditation : discovering innermost awareness / The Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins.

By:

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boulder : Shambhala, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 152 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781559394536 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Rdzogs-chen

DDC classification:

294.3/4435 23

LOC classification:

BQ7935.B774 H45 2016

Other classification:

REL007050 | REL007020 | REL007030

Summary: "His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion for other beings is directly related to--and in fact a prerequisite for--the very pinnacle of Buddhist meditation. He presents his understanding, confirmed again and again over millennia, that the cultivation of both compassion and wisdom is absolutely critical to progress in meditation and goes into great depth on how this can be accomplished. While accessible to a beginner, he leads the reader in very fine detail on how to identify innermost awareness--who we really are--how to maintain contact with this awareness, and how to release oneself from the endless stream of our thoughts to let this awareness, always present, become consistently apparent"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Lindholme Hall Library General stacks	Vajrayana	423 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2404172

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion for other beings is directly related to--and in fact a prerequisite for--the very pinnacle of Buddhist meditation. He presents his understanding, confirmed again and again over millennia, that the cultivation of both compassion and wisdom is absolutely critical to progress in meditation and goes into great depth on how this can be accomplished. While accessible to a beginner, he leads the reader in very fine detail on how to identify innermost awareness--who we really are--how to maintain contact with this awareness, and how to release oneself from the endless stream of our thoughts to let this awareness, always present, become consistently apparent"-- Provided by publisher.