Sakyong Mipham: Turning the Mind Into an Ally, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Turning the Mind Into an Ally
- Forew. by pema Chödrön
- Publisher:
- Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, 01/2004
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781573223454
- Item number:
- 2218050
- Volume:
- 258 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2003
- Weight:
- 206 g
- Format:
- 203 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 6.1.2004
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Description
Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Growing up American with a Tibetan twist, Sakyong Mipham talks to Westerners as no one can: in idiomatic English with stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers. Turning the Mind Into an Ally makes it possible for anyone to achieve peace and clarity in their lives.
Content
Turning the Mind Into an Ally Foreward by Pema Ch?dr?n
Preface
One: Why Meditate?
1. The Rock and the Flower
2. Bewilderment and Suffering
3. Peaceful Abiding
Two: The Art of Peacefully Abiding
4. Taking Our Seat
5. Mindfulness and Awareness
6. How to Gather a Scattered Mind
7. The Virtues of Boredom
8. Laziness
9. Forgetting the Instructions
10. Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose
11. Nine Stages of Training the Mind
Three: Turning the Mind Into An Alley
12. Turning the Mind
13. The Joy of Being Human
14. The Unchanging Truth of Change
15. First We Got Old
16. And Then We Die
17. Samsara and Karma
18. Jumping into the Heart of the Buddha
Four: Warrior in the World
19. Rousing Motivation
20. Wisdom and Emptiness
21. Warrior in the World
Appendixes
A. Preparing to Practice
B. The Posture of Meditation
C. Instructions for Contempletive Meditation
Resources
Review
"In language totally fresh and jargon-free, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche distills the wisdom of many centuries. Simple as it is profound, his book bears reading many times." Peter Conradi, author of Iris Murdoch: A Life
"With warmhearted clarity and wise simplicity, Sakyong Mipham offers some of the best advice you can find for establishing and sustaining a strong, dedicated, and genuinely transformative meditation experience." Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind , this book addresses the complexities, obstacles, and joys of meditation with a simple and extraordinarly generous voice. It's an amazing guidebook for a beginner, in the sense that one is always a beginner and that the journey never ends." Rudy Wurlitzer, author of Hard Travel to Sacred Places
"One of the best of the Buddhism-for-Westerners genre." Publishers Weekly
Blurb
"In language totally fresh and jargon-free, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche distills the wisdom of many centuries. Simple as it is profound, his book bears reading many times."-Peter Conradi, author of Iris Murdoch: A Life and Going Buddhist
Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Growing up American with a Tibetan twist, Sakyong Mipham talks to Westerners as no one can: in idiomatic English with stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers. Turning the Mind Into an Ally makes it possible for anyone to achieve peace and clarity in their lives.
Biography
Sakyong Mipham, geb. 1962 im indischen Bodhgaya, genießt als geistige Autorität der tibetischen Tradition bereits höchsten Respekt. Er ist der Leiter von Shambhala International, einer Organisation mit über hundert Meditationszentren in westlichen Ländern, die von Chögyam Trungpa gegründet wurde. Mipham lehrt weltweit sowohl vor westlichen als auch asiatischen Zuhörern. Er lebt in den USA, in Europa und in Indien.
