Meditations Of A Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices Of The Mahayana Buddhist Path

This book presents with the intimate freshness of a personal teaching the main practices of the Mahayana Buddhist path. Publishers Weekly The teachings of Tibetan abbott Kensur Lekden are set forth in Memoirs of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path trans. by Jeffrey Hopkins. The book seems inappropriately titled; it is not a memoir but a series of lectures that Kensur Lekden gave in Wisconsin in 1970. While the abbot was an acknowledged expert in Tantra these teachings are not particularly esoteric and should prove quite accessible to beginners on the Buddhist path. ( Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. More Reviews and Recommendations Table Of Contents: Preface71.Love112.Compassion233.Joy354.Equanimity495.Cyclic Existence636.The Mind of Enlightenment757.Mothers Kindness858.The Benefits of Love959.Great Compassion9910.The Unusual Attitude10911.Wisdom11912.Nagarjuna13313.Are a Person and Mind and Body the Same or Different?14314.Nothingness Is Not Emptiness15515.The Supreme Practitioner165Selected Readings175 Read a Sample Chapter Chapter One Love I want to offer good luck and happiness to all of you who have assembled here today. Because all humans are doers of deeds the Buddhist system of practice has an explanation of how to act. You do deeds by identifying that which is to be practiced or taken in hand and that which is to be forsaken or discarded. The best of what is to be adopted is effort at the means of causing everyone to possess happiness and to be free from suffering. With respect to adopting the means of causing everyone yourself and others to possess happiness there are three actions to be done: hearing thinking and meditating. Hearing means that you yourself hear the explanation of another or look in a book and discover what is to be done in order to obtain happiness. What will you discover with respect to possessing happiness? First you need to have the body of a hu