Awakening the Balanced Mind: A Guide to Meditation, Self-Healing, and Awareness - Softcover

Tulku, Tarthang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898003407 ISBN 13: 9780898003406

Publisher: Dharma Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Meditation is more than a practice―it is a way of living with balance, clarity, and compassion.

In Awakening the Balanced Mind, one of the first great Tibetan teachers to settle in the West offers a fresh vision of meditation as presence, healing, and transformation. Originally published as Gesture of Balance in 1977, this newly revised edition features expanded guided practices and a new foreword by Ron Purser (McMindfulness).

Awakening the Balanced Mind shows how meditation can be a path to a life lived more fully, rather than a practice to withdraw from life itself. The first section encourages us to look at our lives with honesty and directness. Only then in the second section are specific practices introduced, but they begin from a place of relaxation and expansion, feeling more deeply the unity between body, breath and mind. Opening to deep possibilities of self-healing, the third section builds on this foundation to create a practice of observation and engagement. It is from that state of calmness, openness and harmony that we can discover Mind itself, our shining birthright that reveals the true potential of Human Being. The final sections then open into a deep discussion of the teacher-student relationship, and how finally we find our own inner teacher, expanding effortlessly into an ever deeper relationship with ourselves and others.

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About the Author

Tarthang Tulku was born in 1935 in the highlands of Golok and educated by some of the most brilliant masters of his tradition. A pioneering teacher whose life bridges ancient wisdom and modernity, he came to America in 1968 after teaching at Sanskrit University in Varanasi following the 1959 annexation of Tibet. He established major educational, publishing, and cultural preservation projects, including the World Peace Ceremony in India and the free distribution of millions of books to the Tibetan diaspora. Author of nearly forty works translated into eighteen languages, his vision continues to awaken hearts and minds worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dharma Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898003407
• ISBN 13: 9780898003406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198