Openness Mind SelfKnowledge and Inner Peace Through Meditation (Audible Audio Edition) Tarthang Tulku Arnaud Maitland Dharma Publishing Books
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This audiobook continues themes introduced in Gesture of Balance, offering listeners more advanced presentations on mind and meditation. Here listeners 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. Beginning with openness, the teachings deepen through meditation and move beyond meanings to engage the path of Dharma directly.
Continuing to unfold, the progression points toward the awakening of Bodhicitta, mind free of illusions, mind no longer separated from enlightenment. Openness Mind introduces visualization, meditation, breathing, and dream yoga techniques helpful to individuals in their daily activities.
Openness Mind SelfKnowledge and Inner Peace Through Meditation (Audible Audio Edition) Tarthang Tulku Arnaud Maitland Dharma Publishing Books
I read and reread this remarkable book years ago when I first became acquainted with the Buddhist teachings from Tibet. The author dedicates his work to Western students of the Dharma. This is most appropriate since if there was one book I would recommend to anybody interested in learning about the Tibetan approach to meditation and the Buddhist teachings, this book would be the one. Tarthang Tulku guides the reader on the path of awakening in a most gentle and sweet manner. To provide a sampling, here are a few quotes with my own commentary as a Westerner having practiced the Dharma over the span of thirty years."I think Westerners can automatically understand many of Buddha's beginning teachings because there is a lot of frustration here. We can understand a great deal just by studying our own life experience." The author lets us know as Westerners that we can use our own culture and background as a powerful way to access the Dharma. Buddha didn't teach for the benefit of Asians only; Buddhism and the Dharma is meant for everybody willing to step on the path.
"Our senses are nourished when we become quiet and relaxed. We can experience each sense, savoring its essence. To do this, touch on one aspect of the senses, and then allow the feeling to go farther. As we go to an even deeper level, we can intensify and enjoy the values and the satisfaction to be found there."..."We can explore the creamy texture of our deeper feelings, and contact an ever subtler level of beauty within our bodies and senses. Within the open space of meditation we can find infinite joy and perfect bliss." You can read and study dozens, maybe hundreds, of texts in Western philosophy and religion going back to Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas, but you will not find anything in any of those ancient and medieval texts like what Tarthang Tulku has written here.
"When you realize that everything is like a dream, you attain pure awareness. And the way to attain this awareness is to realize that all experience is like a dream." The author presents the teaching of dream yoga in such an approachable and easy-to-understand way. This will be a unique experience for Westerners, since, sadly, we lack comparable teachings within our Western tradition.
Tarthang Tulku relates a number of unforgettable stories about old Tibet. This is one I recall in my own words: One young lama bragged about his fearlessness in doing the Chod practice of calling out to demons while sitting alone is a spooky cemetery at night. The other lamas got tired of his bragging and one night they smeared their bodies with sulphur paste so they glowed. When the young lama called out to the demons that night, all the glowing lamas came out from hiding and moved toward him. Seeing this sight, the young lama took to his heels, fast! The next morning at breakfast, the lamas didn't have to listen to all his bragging about his Chod practice and fearlessness. Rather, he ate in silence.
What a wonderful book! Thank you Tarthang Tulku.
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Openness Mind SelfKnowledge and Inner Peace Through Meditation (Audible Audio Edition) Tarthang Tulku Arnaud Maitland Dharma Publishing Books Reviews
I give this a no star rating. Description did not match. This book is so heavily marked/underlined it is distracting to read. One man's thoughts aren't anothers.
An incredible book of beautiful grace imparting the simple essence within us all shining behind our obscurations which the author gently helps us dissolve.
In brief comment to another reviewer who stated that in his opinion the author used the cliche of the "space between thoughts" as inappropriate because thoughts have no spatial location, and that therefore the "time between two thoughts" would be preferable, I find rather nonsensical because perhaps no phrase can be 100% accurate, but certainly the "time between two thoughts" is a bit farther afield for at least the "space between thoughts" is pointing to our intrinsic awareness which in essence is timeless in the eternal Now and paradoxically said to include all time and space... the missed notion I think is to go beyond the pointing thought or open it up, but perhaps the "timeless spacelessness between thoughts" might work for some... it could happen!
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I'm really glad I chose bargain bookcellar as they offered very good price for the book which has impressed as not many books I've read so far. Simple language makes easy to understand essential ideas as well as give me inspiration to go deeper into myself.
This was my introduction to Tarthang Tulku's series. It is clear and concise and gives the reader a lot to think about at any level of meditation. This book is not just about meditation, it's about life, and everything in it is easily translated to events that happen in the real world. I will read this whole series!
What he writes is so timelessly true, if you just read each sentence carefully and try to bring it into your daily life, you cannot help but change.
This book really is amazing. I think for people just approaching Buddhism and Dzogchen, this might not really seem like much (then again, it might be mind-blowing, I don't know). I think if I read this 10 years ago, I would have THOUGHT I understood it, but I wouldn't have really understood it. Not only is it common sense, it's uncommon sense and there really is a lot of stuff her to digest.
I read and reread this remarkable book years ago when I first became acquainted with the Buddhist teachings from Tibet. The author dedicates his work to Western students of the Dharma. This is most appropriate since if there was one book I would recommend to anybody interested in learning about the Tibetan approach to meditation and the Buddhist teachings, this book would be the one. Tarthang Tulku guides the reader on the path of awakening in a most gentle and sweet manner. To provide a sampling, here are a few quotes with my own commentary as a Westerner having practiced the Dharma over the span of thirty years.
"I think Westerners can automatically understand many of Buddha's beginning teachings because there is a lot of frustration here. We can understand a great deal just by studying our own life experience." The author lets us know as Westerners that we can use our own culture and background as a powerful way to access the Dharma. Buddha didn't teach for the benefit of Asians only; Buddhism and the Dharma is meant for everybody willing to step on the path.
"Our senses are nourished when we become quiet and relaxed. We can experience each sense, savoring its essence. To do this, touch on one aspect of the senses, and then allow the feeling to go farther. As we go to an even deeper level, we can intensify and enjoy the values and the satisfaction to be found there."..."We can explore the creamy texture of our deeper feelings, and contact an ever subtler level of beauty within our bodies and senses. Within the open space of meditation we can find infinite joy and perfect bliss." You can read and study dozens, maybe hundreds, of texts in Western philosophy and religion going back to Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas, but you will not find anything in any of those ancient and medieval texts like what Tarthang Tulku has written here.
"When you realize that everything is like a dream, you attain pure awareness. And the way to attain this awareness is to realize that all experience is like a dream." The author presents the teaching of dream yoga in such an approachable and easy-to-understand way. This will be a unique experience for Westerners, since, sadly, we lack comparable teachings within our Western tradition.
Tarthang Tulku relates a number of unforgettable stories about old Tibet. This is one I recall in my own words One young lama bragged about his fearlessness in doing the Chod practice of calling out to demons while sitting alone is a spooky cemetery at night. The other lamas got tired of his bragging and one night they smeared their bodies with sulphur paste so they glowed. When the young lama called out to the demons that night, all the glowing lamas came out from hiding and moved toward him. Seeing this sight, the young lama took to his heels, fast! The next morning at breakfast, the lamas didn't have to listen to all his bragging about his Chod practice and fearlessness. Rather, he ate in silence.
What a wonderful book! Thank you Tarthang Tulku.
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