Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness - Hardcover

Dalai Lama

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670896713 ISBN 13: 9780670896714

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2001

Synopsis

In his latest book, the great Tibetan spiritual leader discusses the meaning of truth and the secret to love and happiness, covering compassion, nonviolence, and many other topics along the way.

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About the Author

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the exiled religious and temporal leader of Tibet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, is recognized internationally as a spiritual leader and peace statesman. He lives in Dharamsala, India.

Renuka Singh is currently an Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India. She compiled and edited The Path to Tranquility, by her spiritual teacher His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is the inspiring spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, a worldwide Tibetan Buddhist organization.

Reviews

The packaging of talks given by the Dalai Lama has become a publishing staple in the last decade. Here the Dalai Lama's student Singh, a university professor in India, has pulled together six talks delivered in New Delhi from 1988-1997. "In order to practice Buddhism, you have to first know about the mind," begins this labyrinthine journey that is ostensibly aimed at all people, not just Buddhist practitioners. The lectures are good examples of how the Dalai Lama must be supremely accessible in thought and speech, and yet must also articulate the more abstract philosophical underpinnings of Buddhism as a "science of the mind." Within each chapter both aspects are in evidence. For example, in "A Journey to Happiness" we read the clear directive, "Some people feel that compassion, love and forgiveness are religious matters. This is wrong. Love and compassion are imperative. There is no way we can ignore these things, whether one is a believer or not." Near the end of the same chapter the thinking takes one of its abstruse turns: "In Maha-Anuttara Yoga Tantrayana, one unique practice is making a distinction among the gross, subtle, and innermost subtle levels of mind." The book's ultimate message of happiness through compassion is a vital one, but this collection is geared for the adept with a philosophical appetite and a considerable intellect, not for the general reader.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670896713
• ISBN 13: 9780670896714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 202