The Compassionate Life
eBook - ePub

The Compassionate Life

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Compassionate Life

About this book

"The key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion." --His Holiness the Dalai LamaGiving and receiving affection is the key to happiness, and compassion is the key that opens our hearts to affection. Illuminating themes touched upon in The Good Heart and The Art of Happiness, this generous and gentle book contains some of the most beloved teachings on compassion that the Dalai Lama has ever offered. Touching and transformative, The Compassionate Life is a personal invitation from one of the world's most gifted teachers to live a life of happiness, joy, and true prosperity.Collected here for the first time are four of the Dalai Lama's most accessible and inspiring teachings on compassion. The purpose of life is to be happy, His Holiness reminds us. To be happy, we should devote ourselves to developing our own peace of mind; the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own peace of mind. Therefore, we must develop compassion for others in order to be truly happy.In these four teachings--imbued with the gentle humor and extraordinary kindness of this incomparable teacher--His Holiness explores altruism and the need for compassion on an individual as well as a global scale. He offers specific practices for developing loving-kindness and compassion in even the most difficult situations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Publisher’s Acknowledgment
  6. Editor’s Preface
  7. 1 The Benefits of Compassion
  8. 2 Developing Compassion
  9. 3 Global Compassion
  10. 4 Religious Pluralism
  11. 5 Basic Buddhism
  12. 6 The Bodhisattva Way
  13. 7 Eight Verses for Training the Mind
  14. Appendix: Generating the Mind of Enlightenment
  15. Index
  16. Suggested Further Reading
  17. About Wisdom

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