In our quest for true happiness and fulfillment during the course of our lives, nothing is more essential than giving and receiving love. But how well do we understand love's extraordinarily transformative powers? Can we really cultivate and appreciate its priceless gifts?
In How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers a simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama guides us through seven key stages.
First, we learn ways to move beyond our self-defeating tendency to put others into rigid categories. We discover how to create and maintain a positive attitude toward those around us, in ever-widening circles. By reflecting on the kindnesses that close friends have shown us, particularly in childhood, we learn to reciprocate and help other people achieve their own long-term goals. And in seeking the well-being of others, we foster compassion, the all-encompassing face of love.
In this accessible and insightful book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama helps us to open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment.
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How to Expand Love
Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
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eBook - ePub
How to Expand Love
Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
BuddhismTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. My Outlook
- 2. Stages of Development
- 3. Basic Purity of the Mind
- 4. Foundational Step: Viewing Friend and Foe
- 5. The First Step: Recognizing Friends
- 6. The Second Step: Appreciating Kindness
- 7. The Third Step: Returning Kindness
- 8. The Fourth Step: Learning to Love
- 9. The Difference Between Love and Attachment
- 10. Love as the Basis of Human Rights
- 11. Widening the Circle of Love
- 12. The Fifth Step: The Power of Compassion
- 13. The Sixth Step: Total Commitment
- 14. The Seventh Step: Seeking Altruistic Enlightenment
- 15. The Enormous Power of Altruism
- 16. Acting with Love
- Selected Readings
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