The Foundation of Buddhist Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Foundation of Buddhist Practice write by Thubten Chodron. This book was released on 2018-05-15. The Foundation of Buddhist Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion. Volume 1, Approaching the Buddhist Path, contained introductory material that set the context for Buddhist practice. This second volume, The Foundation of Buddhist Practice, describes the important teachings that will help us establish a flourishing Dharma practice. Traditional presentations of the path in Tibetan Buddhism assume the audience already has faith in the Buddha and believes in rebirth and karma, but the Dalai Lama realized early on that a different approach was needed for his Western and contemporary Asian students. Starting with the four seals and the two truths, His Holiness illuminates key Buddhist ideas, such as dependent arising, emptiness, and karma, to support the reader in engaging with this rich tradition. This second volume in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series provides a wealth of reflections on the relationship between a spiritual mentor and student, how to begin a meditation practice, and the relationship between the body and mind.
The Foundations of Buddhism
The Foundations of Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Foundations of Buddhism write by Rupert Gethin. This book was released on 1998-07-16. The Foundations of Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan and Eastern) which exist in the world today.
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhist Practice on Western Ground write by Harvey Aronson. This book was released on 2004-08-10. Buddhist Practice on Western Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern spiritual traditions for guidance and support—and find themselves confused or disappointed. Issues addressed include: • Our cultural belief that anger should not be suppressed versus the Buddhist teaching to counter anger and hatred • Our psychotherapists' advice that attachment is the basis for healthy personal development and supportive relationships versus the Buddhist condemnation of attachments as the source of suffering • Our culture's emphasis on individuality versus the Asian emphasis on interdependence and fulfillment of duties, and the Buddhist teachings on no-self, or egolessness
Four Foundations of Buddhist Practice
Four Foundations of Buddhist Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Foundations of Buddhist Practice write by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. This book was released on 2011. Four Foundations of Buddhist Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice
The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice write by Artemus B. Engle. This book was released on 2009-09-16. The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice contains translations of texts by two historically important Indian Buddhist scholars: Vasubhandhu's "Summary of the Five Heaps" and Sthiramati's commentary on Vasubandhu's root text. These works present the traditional Buddhist analysis of ordinary experience and provide rich resources for studying Buddhist and Western interpretations of the psychology of spiritual development. According to Buddhist doctrine, the mind of an ordinary person even at birth holds deeply ingrained predispositions that lead us to perceive the elements of everyday experience mistakenly and to believe, for instance, that entities persist through time that the pleasures we pursue are genuinely satisfying, that our own personal being is governed by a real self, and that all physical and mental phenomena have a distinct, independent, and real essence. Our everyday language only serves to reinforce and deepen these erring notions. Buddhist teaching reveals how to reject these flawed beliefs and replace them with a model that both more accurately represents our experience and is indispensable to the realizations that will free us from cyclic existence. The ability to accomplish this rests largely with learning the unique vocabulary and explanations found in Buddhist literature, since that is how we will discover what is mistaken about our untutored beliefs and where we will gain the intellectual skills that are needed to construct a new and more refined conceptual infrastructure. Engle's introduction explores how the material contained in the two translations can specifically improve practice of the Tibetan teaching system known as Lamrim, or Stages of the Path. Each of the levels of motivation described by the Lamrim teachings is examined in light of the doctrine of the five heaps—form, feeling, conception, formations, and consciousness—to show how greater understanding of the classical Buddhist doctrines can enhance practice of that portion of the instruction.
