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9780316930932

An Open Heart Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780316930932

  • ISBN10:

    0316930938

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-09-04
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books

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Summary

How does one actually become a compassionate person? What are the mechanisms by which a selfish heart is transformed into a generous heart? The Dalai Lama's teachings on this essential subject, drawn from talks he delivered during his epochal visit to America in 1999, form the basis of this universally appealing book.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Nicholas Vreeland
Introduction Central Park, New York City, August 15, 1999 3(24)
The Desire for Happiness
27(16)
Meditation, a Beginning
43(12)
The Material and Immaterial World
55(8)
Karma
63(10)
The Afflictions
73(8)
The Vast and the Profound: Two Aspects of the Path
81(8)
Compassion
89(10)
Meditating on Compassion
99(8)
Cultivating Equanimity
107(10)
Bodhicitta
117(10)
Calm Abiding
127(12)
The Nine Stages of Calm Abiding Meditation
139(8)
Wisdom
147(14)
Buddhahood
161(8)
Generating Bodhicitta
169(12)
Afterword 181(10)
Khyongla Rato
Richard Gere
Photo Credits 191

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