The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart

Wallace, B. Alan

ISBN 10: 1559393939 / ISBN 13: 9781559393935

Published by Shambhala, 2012

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Synopsis:

A guide to the Tibetan Buddhist practice of lojong meditation--or mind training--as a way to pause, reflect, and discover the true meaning and value of life <p/> In this society, with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. Looking back after ten, twenty, thirty, years--we wonder what we have really accomplished. The process of simply existing is not necessarily meaningful. And yet there is an unlimited potential for meaning and value in this human existence. <p/> The Seven-Point Mind Training is one eminently practical way of tapping into that meaning. At the heart of the Seven-Point Mind Training lies the transformation of the circumstances that life brings us, however hard as the raw material from which we create our own spiritual path. The central theme of the Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from the constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with others which occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others. This Mind Training is especially well-suited for an active life. It helps us to reexamine our relationships--to family, friends, enemies, and strangers--and gradually transform our responses to whatever life throws our way

About the Author: B. Alan Wallace has authored, translated, edited, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, science, and culture. With fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, he earned a BA in physics and the philosophy of science and then a PhD in religious studies. After teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies to explore the integration of scientific approaches and contemplative methods.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan ...
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good