Cultivating Compassion: A Buddhist Prespective - Softcover

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767905008 ISBN 13: 9780767905008

Publisher: Broadway, 2002

Synopsis

What compels some people to act compassionately without giving it a second thought, while for others it almost seems against their nature? And what will become of our society if compassion dwindles?

According to Buddhist thought, compassion is society, and esteemed Buddhist scholar-practitioner Jeffrey Hopkins knows that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for others. In Cultivating Compassion, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama’s favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his personal journey to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and in learning to project that love into the world around us.

Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives, Cultivating Compassion is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal–and even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from negative emotions, such as anger, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity.

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From the Back Cover:

"Jeffrey Hopkins has gifted us simple techniques for achieving, through practice, a more loving and tolerant state of being. I think this is a very important book and a must-read for those who are searching for a path to a more joyful and fulfilling life."
–Goldie Hawn

"One of the finest presentations of Tibetan Buddhism mind-training in print."
–Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs

"Hopkins brings deep knowledge of Buddhist meditation practice to the table, but scholarship alone would not suffice to make this an accessible, readable guide. For that, we need wisdom and the very compassion Hopkins aims to engender in his readers–and he demonstrates both abundantly. His prose is clear and simple, yet penetrating and resonant; his book offers an irresistible entry into an essential practice." –Yoga Journal

"If I had to choose one book that communicates the transformative potential of Buddhism, it would be this one."
–Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

About the Author:

Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D., served as the interpreter to the Dalai Lama for a decade. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than twenty books and translations, he is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program of Tibetan Buddhism studies in the West. He lives in Charlottesville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0767905008
• ISBN 13: 9780767905008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208