Being Human and a Buddha Too
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Being Human and a Buddha Too

Longchenpa's Sevenfold Mind Training for a Sunlit Sky

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Being Human and a Buddha Too

Longchenpa's Sevenfold Mind Training for a Sunlit Sky

About this book

In writing that sparkles and inspires, Anne Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) shows us how to liberate our buddha nature to be both human and a buddha too.

This first volume in the House of Adzom series centers on Longchenpa’s seven trainings in bodhicitta, our awakened mind, the ultimate purpose of our practice and training. Anne Klein’s original composition masterfully weaves in Adzom Paylo Rinpoche’s commentary and Jigme Lingpa’s five pith practices and commentary on the trainings, in keeping with Longchenpa’s skillful integration of sutra, tantra, and Dzogchen, to resolve our most challenging questions about what awakening involves and how it relates to the truth of our human situation right now. As foundational teachings for Dzogchen practitioners, the seven trainings are framed as contemplations on impermanence, the adventitiousness of happiness and its short duration, the multiple causes of death, the meaninglessness of our worldly activities, reliance on the Buddha’s good qualities, the teacher’s pith instructions, and, ultimately, nonconceptual meditation on bliss and emptiness, clarity and emptiness, and reality itself.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1. Sevenfold Mind Training by Longchenpa
  8. Part 2. Prologue by Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, a Commentary on Longchenpa’s Sevenfold Mind Training
  9. Part 3. Mind Trainings’ Breadth and Depth: Wisdom, Pith Practices, and Dzogchen Perspective
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Notes
  12. Tibetan and Sanskrit Terms
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Lineage Masters
  16. About the Author
  17. Copyright