The Path to Awakening

Mind Training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend on a person's background. Mind Training nurses and cultivates the Buddha Nature, that pure seed of awakening that is at the very heart of every sentient being. It has the poer to transform even egotistical self-clinging into selflessness. Put into practice diligently, it is enough to lead you all the way to awakening. In "The Path to Awakening", Shamar Rinpoche gives his own detailed commentary on Chekawa YeshE DorjE's "Seven Points of Mind Training", a text that has been used as a basis for transformative practice in Tibetan Buddhis for close to a thousand years. Clear, accessible, and yet profound, this book is filled with practical wisdom, philosophy, and meditation instructions.

The author Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa or red Hat Lama, has worked to spread the Buddhadharma throughout the world for over 30 years. For many years he has taught mainly in Karma Kgyu centres established by H.H. the 16th Karmapa, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Kalu Rinpoche, but since 2001, he has founded his own rime [non sectarian] centres.