The Great Path of Awakening: The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating Theheart of Compassion
Here is a practical Buddhist guidebook that offers techniques for developing a truly compassionate heart in the midst of everyday life. For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine pithy slogans—such as "A joyous state of mind is a constant support" and "Don't talk about others' shortcomings"—as a means to awaken kindness, gentleness, and compassion. While Tibetan Buddhists have long valued these slogans, recently they have become popular in the West due to such books as Start Where You Are...
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Here is a practical Buddhist guidebook that offers techniques for developing a truly compassionate heart in the midst of everyday life. For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine pithy slogans—such as "A joyous state of mind is a constant support" and "Don't talk about others' shortcomings"—as a means to awaken kindness, gentleness, and compassion. While Tibetan Buddhists have long valued these slogans, recently they have become popular in the West due to such books as Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön and Training the Mind by Chögyam Trungpa. This edition of The Great Path of Awakening contains an accessible, newly revised translation of the slogans from the famous text The Seven Points of Mind Training . It also includes illuminating commentary from Jamgon Kongtrul that provides further instruction on how to meet every situation with intelligence and an open heart.
The great path of awakening1The source of the transmission3The need for mind training5The actual instructions7The explanation of the seven points of mind training7The groundwork : instruction on what supports Dharma8The actual practice : training in Bodhicitta10The transformation of adversity into the path of awakening17The utilization of the practice in one's whole life25The extent of proficiency in mind training29Commitments of mind training30Guidelines for mind training37Concluding verses45Additional instructions from the transmission lineage46AppThe seven points of mind training (McLeod)89AppThe root text of the seven points of training the mind (Nalanda Translation Committee)93AppSoothing the pain of faith : a prayer to the mind-training lineage99AppThe seven-branch prayer105
\ From the Publisher"Jamgon Kongtrul's commentary on the slogans is one of the best books I studied. I was relieved that Buddhism was so simple. You can just follow the book and do as it says, which is extraordinarily powerful and such a relief."—Chögyam Trungpa\ \
