Sadness, Love, Openness
The Buddhist Path of Joy
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A direct, pithy, and accessible guide to the entire path of Tibetan Buddhism by one of the most beloved and respected contemporary lamas.
Accessible, playful, and genuine, this concise guide shows how we can incorporate our own daily experiences into our spiritual path and awaken to how things truly are. By embracing sadness, love, and openness in our lives, we develop an altruistic attitude to help all beings who suffer and to reduce our own greed and aggression. This easy-to-read manual by one of the most widely loved and respected Tibetan Buddhist teachers of our time teaches us how to honestly explore and deal with our own hang-ups and neuroses. Through knowing our own true nature as aware and compassionate, we can progress, step-by-step, on the Buddhist path and use Rinpoche’s pithy wisdom along the way as a touchstone.
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s fresh and engaged approach to timeless Buddhist wisdom enables us to deeply connect with authentic teachings in a modern context. This work is a delight and inspiration to read, outlining the major teachings and practices of Buddhism in a succinct way.
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Tibetan Buddhist abbot Nyima (Present Fresh Wakefulness) introduces the key concepts of Buddhism in this accessible beginner's guide. In the opening section, on sadness, he explains how the rejection of impermanence causes all suffering before ending with a nice summation of the Buddhist route to ultimate truth through a clear understanding of the interdependence of all things. The next section, on love, offers suggestions on how to work through suffering with meditations to increase compassion and clear descriptions of how broadly one's love must extend: "become a loving servant, savior, and friend to all beings." Though the instructions are vague and will require more personal support, there are plenty of provocative ideas to mull over. The final section on openness exhorts those aspiring to enlightenment to not become competitive or fixated on progress and to let go of their firm grip on the way things seem. Indirect connections between paragraphs throughout never make the work feel jumbled; instead, Nyima's nonlinear approach feels like the organic wisdom of a dear friend. Somewhere between a preliminary guidebook and fine-spun philosophy, this comforting volume succeeds as an easy introduction to Buddhist thinking and practice.