Our Pristine Mind

Author : Orgyen Chowang
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781611803273

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Our Pristine Mind by Orgyen Chowang Pdf

This “gem of a book” reveals how we can go beyond mindfulness to connect with the ultimate happiness within us and transform our lives (Rick Hanson, Buddha’s Brain) The true nature of our mind is brilliant, clear, and joyful. But we don’t experience this reality amid the swirl of stresses, thoughts, and emotions of day-to-day life. Our Pristine Mind is a practical guide to uncovering our naturally comfortable state of mind and reconnecting with the unconditional happiness that is already within us. Using straightforward, accessible language, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche leads us through the path of Pristine Mind meditation, a practice from the profound teachings known as Dzogchen. This book presents the entire journey of meditation, from the very beginning all the way to the complete happiness of enlightenment. It is a realistic, natural process that can be practiced and experienced by anyone.

Author : Orgyen Chowang
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780834840096

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Our Pristine Mind by Orgyen Chowang Pdf

The true nature of our mind is brilliant, clear, and joyful. But we don’t experience this reality amid the swirl of stresses, thoughts, and emotions of day-to-day life. Our Pristine Mind is a practical guide to uncovering our naturally comfortable state of mind and reconnecting with the unconditional happiness that is already within us. Using straightforward, accessible language, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche leads us through the path of Pristine Mind meditation, a practice from the profound teachings known as Dzogchen. This book presents the entire journey of meditation, from the very beginning all the way to the complete happiness of enlightenment. It is a realistic, natural process that can be practiced and experienced by anyone.

Author : Anam Thubten
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834840249

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Embracing Each Moment by Anam Thubten Pdf

The awakened life is the essence and aim of the Buddhist teachings, according to Anam Thubten, and this book is a guide to cultivating the awakened mind and heart that allows this wonderful kind of life to happen. He illuminates the path to awakened living in a way that’s concise and completely accessible to anyone of any background—reflective of the diverse backgrounds of the students who attend his popular talks on which the book is based. "We all want to be happy," says Anam Thubten. "This seems to be our strongest impulse. Primarily our happiness comes from our state of mind, though we can’t deny the fact that outside circumstances play a big role. When we learn to embrace each moment of our lives, we’re empowered to let go of our emotional patterns and false beliefs about ourselves, and we discover the compassion that’s been there all along."

Author : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401949532

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Awakening the Luminous Mind by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Pdf

In Awakening the Luminous Mind, meditation teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides you to find refuge within instead of searching for support outside of yourself. Using the heart instructions of Dawa Gyaltsen, an 8th-century Tibetan meditation master, as a vehicle to guide contemplative practice, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche opens your eyes to the gifts hidden in your ordinary experiences. The meditations presented in the book and on the accompanying audio download provide a direct way to meet the challenges of life as we encounter them. Fully incorporating these practices into daily life will help you open and transform your perceived limitations into unlimited possibilities. They will help you dissolve self-doubt and self-judgment, and discover the wisdom and light inherent within you in every moment. Awakening the Luminous Mind completes a series of three books that present meditation instructions and practices to help readers discover the treasury of the natural mind.

Author : Jigme Lingpa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834840317

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Steps to the Great Perfection by Jigme Lingpa Pdf

The mind-training practices contained in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have never before been presented in the English language. The main text translated here, The Steps to Liberation, will be of great interest to Western practitioners, since its instructions are pithy and direct, and experiential rather than scholarly. The contemplations on core Buddhist principles like impermanence and karma, intended for beginning meditators, unfold as dramatic stories in which the meditator is to vividly imagine himself or herself as the main character who undergoes a sequence of experiences that result in transformative realizations. They distill the most essential teachings of the Buddha into a practical system that can be easily implemented in a daily meditation practice. At the same time, they bring together the most foundational Buddhist teachings with the profound methods of the Vajrayana (the esoteric teachings of Buddhist tantra). This is the hallmark of Dzogchen mind training and what sets it apart from other mind-training lineages.

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458783899

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The Attention Revolution by B. Alan Wallace Pdf

Shamatha meditation is a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace, an active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scholars, has more than 20 years' practice in the discipline, some of it under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. This book is a definitive presentation of his knowledge of shamatha. It is aimed at the contemporary seeker who is distracted and defocused by the dizzying pace of modern life, as well as those suffering from depression and other mental maladies. Beginning by addressing the inherent problems.

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231147316

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Mind in the Balance by B. Alan Wallace Pdf

By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

Author : Thupten Jinpa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861712632

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Essential Mind Training by Thupten Jinpa Pdf

"Tibetans revere the mind training (lojong) tradition for its practical and down-to-earth advice. The key to happiness is not a life free of problems but rather the development of a mind capable of transforming any problem or situation into a cause of happiness. Translated and introduced by the Dalai Lama's own translator, Thupten Jinpa, Essential Mind Training contains eighteen individual works, including such renowned classics as Eight Verses on Mind Training and The Seven-Point Mind Training."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ronald Purser
Publisher : Repeater
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912248490

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McMindfulness by Ronald Purser Pdf

Mindfulness is now all the rage. From endorsements by celebrities, to monks, neuroscientists, and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have called it a revolution. The evangelical promotion of mindfulness as a panacea for all that ails us has begun to give way to a backlash, with questions arising whether its claims for achieving happiness, wellbeing and career success have been over-sold. Expanding on his influential essay Beyond McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called ñmindfulness revolutionî, arguing its proponents have reduced mindfulness to a self-help technique that fits snugly into a consumerist culture complicit with Western materialistic values. In a lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools, and the U.S. military, Purser explains why such programs inevitably fall short of their revolutionary potential. Simply paying attention to the present moment while resting snugly in our private bubbles is no mindfulness revolution. Mindfulness has become the new capitalist spirituality, a disciplined myopia, that mindlessly ignores the need for social and political change.

Author : Klong-chen-pa Dri-med-ʼod-zer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611805161

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Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind by Klong-chen-pa Dri-med-ʼod-zer Pdf

Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first part to Longchenpa's Trilogy of Rest, a work of the esoteric Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. This unique presentation of the Buddhist view and path combines the scholastic expository method of explanation with direct pith instructions designed for yogi practitioners. Here we find fundamental instructions on the need to turn away from materialism, how to find a qualified guide, how to develop boundless compassion for all beings, and much more. Longchenpa then carries the reader through to the view of tantra and its associated practices in chapter ten. Chapters eleven and twelve explore calm abiding (shamatha) and deep insight (vipashyana) meditation techniques. The work culminates with chapter thirteen, the final chapter, in which the result of practice is presented from the perspective of Dzogchen.

Author : Orgyen Chowang
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645471820

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From Foundation to Summit by Orgyen Chowang Pdf

Essential instructions on the Vajrayana path to ultimate enlightenment, from the foundational contemplations about the nature of reality to the ultimate realizations of the wisdom of Dzogchen. In the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, before one can receive empowerments and pointing-out instructions from a dharma master, one must first open and prepare the mind by engaging in the foundational practices (ngöndro). This consists of completing a specified number of repetitions of the rituals of taking refuge, arousing the mind of awakening (bodhichitta), mandala offering, Vajrasattva purification, and Guru Yoga. In this book, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche brilliantly explains how to engage in the foundational practice according to the New Treasures of the Dudjom tradition, the Dudjom Tersar. And from the outset, Orgyen Chowang introduces the pristine teachings of Dzogchen, the pinnacle of the Nyingma path, to provide the context that informs every stage of the path to awakening. This book is based on a series of oral teachings on Thinley Norbu’s text A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, itself a teaching on the Dudjom Tersar, that Orgyen Chowang gave to Western students over a three-month period in 1997. He explains in a very fresh, uncomplicated way such topics as receiving the blessings from the lama, the nature of awakening, the role of pointing-out instructions, tranquility and insight meditation, the three bodies of enlightenment, and the Dzogchen practices of trekchöd (cutting through) and thögal (passing over). This book will be of immense benefit to those engaged in the Dudjom Tersar ngöndro, those who have already finished their ngöndro accumulations, and those engaged in the foundational practice from other Nyingma lineages.

Author : Thinley Norbu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001048167

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Magic Dance by Thinley Norbu Pdf

This is a unique and powerful presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism on the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. In their gross and subtle forms, these elements combine to make up the infinite illusory display of phenomenal existence. Through teachings, stories, and his distinctive use of language, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche relates how the energies of the elements manifest within our everyday world, in individual behavior and group traditions, relationships and solitude, medicine and art. He explains their links to the five Buddha families and their respective Wisdom Dakinis, and shows how each element relates to our senses, temperament, passions, habits, and karmic potentials. This magic dance of the elements, he concludes, can be transformed through meditation practice and cultivating the calm, vast, and playful state of consciousness that he calls " playmind."

Author : Yusheng Yao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00693685I

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National Salvation Through Education by Yusheng Yao Pdf

Author : Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029003865

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The Earth Unchained by Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Pdf

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002644847

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Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

This book is a refreshing, experientially based and enrichng contribution of American women to Buddhism in the West. Thubten Chodron, author