A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices For Connecting With Others - Softcover

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559392908 ISBN 13: 9781559392907

Publisher: Snow Lion, 2008

Synopsis

The Dalai Lama often says "Kindness is society." By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and 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 A Truthful Heart is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal— even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us will welcome this timely vision for humanity. This is a new edition of Cultivating Compassion.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Dalai Lama often says, "Kindness is society." His former translator, Jeffrey Hopkins, writes that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart 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 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, A Truthful Heart 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 anger and hurt, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity.

"In six unobstructed steps [Hopkins] offers a clear how-to meditation manual on cultivating compassion, a major theme found in all Buddhist traditions. This book is refreshingly jargon-free, with everyday life applications. [A Truthful Heart] helps readers to explore the implications of the Dalai Lama's oft-heard refrain, 'We all want happiness and do not want suffering.'"--Publisher's Weekly

"Delivered in straightforward prose and peppered with Hopkins's wry observations and personal anecdotes, [the] exercises [in A Truthful Heart] have an appealing practicality."--Shambhala Sun

"Jeffrey Hopkins has spent his life helping others to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and openheartedness. Read this warm and wonderful book and learn how, just as I have."--Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

"...a must-read for those who are searching for a path to a more joyful and fulfilling life."--Goldie Hawn, actress

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

Jeffrey Hopkins served as the chief interpreter to the Dalai Lama for a decade. Professor Emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and Vancouver, British Columbia.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Snow Lion
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1559392908
• ISBN 13: 9781559392907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224