Title:
How to practice : the way to a meaningful life / His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins.
Author:
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Hopkins, Jeffrey.
Publication Information:
New York : Atria Books, 2003, c2002.
Call Number:
BQ4302 .B77 2003
Edition:
1st Atria Books trade pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780743453363
Physical Description:
x, 226 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
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.
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