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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

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ISBN-10: 0743290461

ISBN-13: 9780743290463

Edition: N/A

Authors: The Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins

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According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. InHow to See Yourself As You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic -- and loving -- perspective. Through illuminating explanations and step-by-step exercises, His Holiness helps readers to see the world as it actually exists, and explains how, through the interconnection of meditative concentration and love, true altruistic enlightenment is attained. Enlivened by…    
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.13" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

The Dalai Lama, spiritual & political leader of the Tibetan people & a Nobel Peace Laureate, has in the last decade become a global spiritual leader whose message of universal & individual responsibility has won worldwide acclaim.

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Foreword
Introduction: My Perspective
The Need for Insight
Laying the Ground for Insight to Grow
Discovering the Source of Problems
Why Understanding the Truth Is Needed
How to Undermine Ignorance
Feeling the Impact of Interrelatedness
Appreciating the Reasoning of Dependent-Arising
Seeing the Interdependence of Phenomena
Valuing Dependent-Arising and Emptiness
Harnessing the Power of Concentration and Insight
Focusing Your Mind
Tuning Your Mind for Meditation
How to End Self-Deception
Meditating on Yourself First
Realizing That You Do Not Exist in and of Yourself
Determining the Choices
Analyzing Oneness
Analyzing Difference
Coming to a Conclusion
Testing Your Realization
Extending This Insight to What You Own
Balancing Calm and Insight
How Persons and Things Actually Exist
Viewing Yourself As Like an Illusion
Noticing How Everything Depends on Thought
Deepening Love with Insight
Feeling Empathy
Reflecting on Impermanence
Absorbing Yourself in Ultimate Love
Reviewing the Meditative Reflections
Selected Readings