Many Ways To Nirvana

Can a common man with family responsibilities achieve Nirvana or Buddhahood? What should be the spiritual limit of ambition for a busy professional? Are there different kinds of negative emotions? How do you stay positive when confronted with environmental and human injustice? His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers these and a host of other questions in this companion volume to The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth Love and Happiness successfully published around the world in 1999. Interpreting the ancient wisdom of Lord Buddha for today's generation he speaks to us about the paths to self-realization and the need to overcome negative emotions in order to develop one's inner consciousness. Wise compassionate and always pragmatic he offers advice on the many issues that confront the ordinary human being: how to free yourself from emotional afflictions and petty cravings how to transform anxiety and depression into contentment how to initiate and keep alive inter-faith dialogue in the troubled times we live in. Undeniably one of the best books of its kind Many Ways to Nirvana gives us an insight into the Dalai Lama's philosophy and guides us along the path to true liberation.