The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happiness

by Shamar Rinpoche, Lara (trans.) Braitstein

Overview

Mind training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend on a person’s background. Mind Training nurses and cultivates the Buddha Nature, that pure seed of awakening that is at the very heart of every sentient being. It has the power to transform even egotistical self-clinging into self-lessness. Put into practice diligently, it is enough to lead you all the way to awakening. In The Path to Awakening, Shamar Rinpoche gives his own detailed commentary on Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points of Mind Training, a text that has been used for transformative practice in Tibetan Buddhism for close to a thousand years. Clear, accessible, and yet profound, this book is filled with practical wisdom, philosophy, and meditation instructions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781883285593
Publisher:	Delphinium
Publication date:	02/11/2014
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Shamar Rinpoche is the 14th Shamarpa. Born in 1952 in Tibet, Shamar Rinpoche was recognized by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa in 1957, and by the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1996, he started to organize Bodhi Path Buddhist Centers, a network of centers covering many continents, which practice a non-sectarian approach to meditation. In addition, over the years, Shamar Rinpoche has founded several non-profit organizations worldwide engaged in charitable activities such as schooling underprivileged children and promoting animal rights.

Lara Braitstein is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at McGill University.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction vii

A Note on Transliteration xi

The Buddha's Teachings: An Introduction 1

Root Text 9

Homage to the Great Compassionate One! 25

Learn the Preliminaries 41

Train in the Two Bodhicittas 75

Convert Adversities into the Path of Awakening 101

Implement Mind Training in This Life 121

The Measure of Mind Training 131

Commitments of Mind Training 139

Advice for Mind Training 149

Conclusion 161

Final Remarks 162

Appendix

Glossary 167

Bibliography 172

Index 173