How to see yourself as you really are
Bstan-??dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-2008
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Main title:
How to see yourself as you really are / His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins.
Edition:
[Large print ed.].
Imprint:
Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Collation:
297 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2006.Includes bibliographical references ( p. 295-297).
Contents:
The need for insight -- Laying the ground for insight to grow -- Discovering the source of problems -- Why understanding the truth is needed -- How to undermine ignorance -- Feeling the impact of interrelatedness -- Appreciating the reasoning of dependent-arising -- Seeing the interdependence of phenomena -- Valuing dependent-arising and emptiness -- Harnessing the power of concentration and insight -- Focusing your mind -- Tuning your mind for meditation -- How to end self-deception -- Meditating on yourself first -- Realizing that you do not exist in and of yourself -- Determining the choices -- Analyzing oneness -- Analyzing difference -- Coming to a conclusion -- Testing your realization -- Extending this insight to what you own -- Balancing calm and insight -- How persons and things actually exist -- Viewing yourself as like an illusion -- Noticing how everything depends on thought -- Deepening love with insight -- Feeling empathy -- Reflecting on impermanence -- Absorbing yourself in ultimate love -- Appendix: Reviewing the meditative reflections.
ISBN:
9780786299171 (hardcover alk paper)9781594152191 (softcover alk paper)
Dewey class:
294.3422
LC class:
BQ7935.B774
Language:
EnglishTibetan
BRN:
368763