Living Kindness: The Buddha's Ten Guiding Principles for a Blessed Life - Softcover

Altman, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930722230 ISBN 13: 9781930722231

Publisher: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

The ten guiding principles for living a "blessed life" highlights the importance of generosity, effort, patience, ethics, simplicity, meditation, wisdom, thoughtfulness, steadfastness, equanimity, and loving-kindness, drawing on stories and anecdotes to illustrate the value of each virtue. Original.

About this title

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

Living Kindness focuses on wise, timeless, and enduring spiritual principles, or values, that were promoted and followed by the historical Gautama Buddha. The Buddha Vamsa Pali Texts, or lineage of the Buddhas, tell the story of how the Buddha-to-be found the ten conditions necessary for becoming a Buddha. These principles are astonishingly fresh and easily adapted to modern life. Some Buddhist teachings use these as their ideal, a means by which one becomes a Bodhisattva, or an "awakening being" seeking enlightenment. But do not assume that this makes them exclusively "Buddhist" principles or standards. Or that you have to be a Bodhisattva to experience them.

Who can benefit from these principles? Anyone can. Whatever your faith, creed, or background, living kindness represents an inclusive, tolerant, and interfaith path that is not steeped in dogma or ideology. These ten principles—generosity, effort, patience, ethics, simplicity and meditation, wisdom, truthfulness, steadfastness, equanimity, and lovingkindness —offer a universal path to spiritual growth and compassionate living kindness. They can also help us cope with the many challenges facing us today, both personally and as a community.

About this edition

• Publisher: Inner Ocean Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1930722230
• ISBN 13: 9781930722231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230