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Cultivating Compassion: A Buddhist Perpective [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
eBook by Jeffrey Hopkins
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eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion/Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description:  What compels some people to act compassionately without giving it a second thought, while for others it almost seems against their nature? And what will become of our society if compassion dwindles? According to Buddhist thought, compassion is society, and esteemed Buddhist scholar-practitioner Jeffrey Hopkins knows that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for others. In Cultivating Compassion, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his personal journey to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and in learning to project that love into the world around us. Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives, Cultivating Compassion is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal--and even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from negative emotions, such as anger, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity.
eBook Publisher: Random House, Inc./Broadway, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2002
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Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [198 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [152 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [137 KB], SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT [734 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [277 KB]
Words: 70000
Reading time: 200-280 min.
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Microsoft Reader ISBN, MobiPocket Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9780767909501
Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN: 076790950x
 
Foreword His Holiness the Dalai Lama Compassion is a major theme of all Buddhist traditions. The Buddha taught about it directly, and many subsequent commentators in India and all the lands to which Buddhism spread have praised it. The great Indian scholar and spiritual practitioner Chandrakirti famously stated, "It is only compassion that is like the seed, the moisture that nourishes it, and the ripened fruit that can be enjoyed. Because of this I pay my respects first to compassion." Buddhist literature is replete with works extolling the virtues of compassion and the ways and means to awaken and enhance it within ourselves. However, there are also many stories that show that no matter how much you have read or thought about it, it is the spark of experience that brings compassion to life. Perhaps this is because you can read and think in isolation, but life's experience takes place in the company of others. Jeffrey Hopkins is an old personal friend who has been of great help to me as an interpreter. As a scholar he has made a major contribution to deepening understanding of Tibetan Buddhism through his university teaching and his many publications. He has also, in the course of his work, had access to some of the greatest contemporary Tibetan teachers. But most important of all, he has, over the years, steadily tried to put what he has learned into practice. This book, Cultivating Compassion, contains a personal account that Jeffrey has drawn from classes and seminars he has given over the last thirty years or so. What I believe readers will find especially valuable is that the book contains the flavor of experience. It shares those glimpses and sparks of understanding that may inspire others to try the practices out for themselves. I believe that compassion, a sense of kindness and warmheartedness toward others is the basic source of all happiness. Therefore, I have no doubt that every individual who attempts to cultivate it contributes to creating a happier, more peaceful world. Copyright © 2001 Jeffrey Hopkins
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