Openness Mind (Lost Book for All You Fans Out there)

For the many people searching for ways to improve the quality of their lives, Openness Mind clearly explains the value of meditation and how to proceed with its practice. Defining meditation as a way of opening our minds to the richness of experience, this book emphasizes a practical approach that anyone can apply to develop awareness, transcend the limitations of self-image, improve concentration, and effect positive changes in their way of being. Here readers have an array of opportunities to reflect on experience and find their way through the layers of self-image, tension, fears, and emotions to the ground of authentic being. Openness Mind introduces visualization, meditation, breathing, and dream yoga techniques helpful to individuals in their daily activities.

Tarthang Tulku was born in 1935 in the highlands of Golok and educated by some of the most brilliant masters of his tradition, Tarthang Tulku is a pioneering teacher whose life bridges ancient wisdom and modernity. Left a refugee after the 1959 annexation of Tibet, he taught at Sanskrit University in Varanasi before coming to America in 1968, where he has established major educational, publishing, and cultural preservation projects―including the World Peace Ceremony in India and the free distribution of millions of books to the Tibetan diaspora. Author of nearly forty works translated into eighteen languages and studied in universities worldwide, he offers a vision that continues to awaken hearts and minds with timeless wisdom for modern life.