Discover the Dalai Lama’s definitive teaching on compassion in this fifth volume of the Dalai Lama’s definitive Library of Wisdom and Compassion series.
In Praise of Great Compassion, the fifth volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion, continues the Dalai Lama’s teachings on the path to awakening. While previous volumes focused on our present situation and taking responsibility for creating the causes of happiness, this volume concerns opening our hearts and generating the intention to make our lives meaningful by benefiting others.
We are embedded in a universe with other living beings, all of whom have been kind to us in one way or another. More than any other time in human history, we depend on one another to stay alive and flourish. When we look closely, it becomes apparent that we have been the recipient of great kindness. Wanting to repay others’ kindness, we cultivate a positive attitude by contemplating the four immeasurables of love, compassion, empathic joy, and equanimity, and the altruistic intention of bodhicitta. We learn to challenge the self-centered attitude that leads to misery and replace it with a more realistic perspective enabling us to remain emotionally balanced in good and bad times. In this way, all circumstances become favorable to the path to awakening.
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In Praise of Great Compassion
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BuddhismTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Advance Praise for In Praise of Great Compassion
- The Library of Wisdom and Compassion
- Title Page
- Publisher’s Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Four Immeasurables
- 2. The Altruistic Intention of Bodhicitta
- 3. How to Cultivate Bodhicitta: The Seven Cause-and-Effect Instructions
- 4. Equalizing and Exchanging Self and Others
- 5. Becoming a Bodhisattva
- 6. Homage to Great Compassion
- 7. Aspiring and Engaging Bodhicitta
- 8. Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta in Chinese Buddhism
- 9. Bodhicitta and Bodhisattvas in the Pāli Tradition
- 10. Mind Training
- Notes
- Glossary
- Recommended Reading
- Index
- About the Authors
- Also Available from the Dalai Lama and Wisdom Publications
- Also Available from Thubten Chodron
- About Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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