An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In the summer of 1999, the Dalai Lama addressed an audience of over 40,000 in Central Park on how to live a better life. Open Heart is derived from this and other popular lectures given in New York. Here, the Dalai Lama progresses beyond his bestsellers The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Millennium by introducing specific practices that can engender happiness. Spiritual practice, according to the Dalai Lama, is a matter of taming unwanted emotions, which means becoming aware of how the mind works. Through the methods of analytical and settled meditation, the Dalai Lama shows how we can cultivate helpful states of mind and eliminate harmful states, leading us to develop compassion for others and happiness for ourselves. But there is no preaching of a single, right method. This revered but humble monk merely invites the reader to understand the causes of one's suffering and consider how best to alleviate it. Open Heart should draw crowds to the bookstores and lead us all to more satisfactory living. --Brian Bruya

Shelfari edited the contributors of An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Thursday, July 16 2009.

• IT IS MY hope that the reader of this small book will take away basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the key methods by which Buddhist practitioners have cultivated compassion and wisdom in their lives.