The Tibetan Seven-point Mind-training.

Auteur: B. Alan Wallace

Jaar: 2001

Druk: niet genoemd

ISBN: 9781559391597 / 1559391596

Taal: Engels

288 pagina's

Uitgeverij: Snow Lion Publications

Hardcover met stofomslag, tweedehands, in redelijke staat.

Achterflaptekst:

All of us have attitudes. Some of them accord with realty and serve us well throughout the course of our lives. Others are out of alignment with reality and cause us problems. Tibetan Buddhist practice isn’t just sitting in silent meditation. It’s developing fresh attitudes that align our minds with reality. Attitudes need adjusting, just like a spinal column that has been knocked out of alignment. In this book, B. Alan Wallace explains a fundamental type of mental training called lojong, which can literally be translated as attitudinal training. It is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure wellsprings of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes, and frustrations. 

The Tibetan word lojong is made up of two parts: lo means attitude, mind, intelligence, and perspective; and jong means to train, purify, remedy, and clear away. So the word lojong could literally be translated as attitudinal training, but in this book it is called mind-training. 

The author draws on his thirty-year training in Buddhism, physics, the cognitive sciences, and comparative religion to challenge readers to reappraise many of their assumptions about the nature of the mind and physical world. By explicitly addressing many practical and theoretical issues that uniquely face us in the modern world, Wallace brings this centuries-old practice into the twenty-first century. 

Wallace shows us the way to develop attitudes that unveil our full capacity for spiritual awakening and discover in ourselves an unfleeting “truthgiven joy.” 

"The Tibetan master Chekawa’s Seven-Point Mind-Training is widely respected in Tibet end hes been explained by Masters from all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions down the centuries. It contains the essence of Tibetan Buddhism. The simple but far-reaching techniques for training the mind, developing concern for others and turning adversity to advantage have virtually become part of the Tibetan character" —His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

“Readers who put the advice this book contains into practice may indeed transform their minds and achieve a sense of inner peace, the key to greater peace and happiness within and in the world at large.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

“Alan Wallace, one of the great Western Buddhist thinkers of our day, has written an extraordinary book! Using the Tibetan Seven-Point Mind-Training as a framework for his discussion, Wallace offers a lucid and insightful exploration of many of the fundamental tenets of Buddhism. Buddhism with an Attitude is written not only with great intelligence, but also in an accessible and readable style that helps us apply the principles in daily life, showing how each one of us can shape the attitudes that lead to lasting happiness and satisfaction.” —Howard C. Cutler, M.D., co-author with H.H. the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness. 

“Widely informed, intellectually rigorous, and passionately engaged, Buddhism with an Attitude combines a lucid and pragmatic guide to the path of awakening with a provocative challenge to many of the unexamined beliefs that underpin the modern Western view of life.” —Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs.

“A brilliant, inspiring, and lively account of what Buddhist practice truly entails in terms of an inner transformation that can also transform our world. It has the delectable taste of authenticity.” —Matthieu Ricard, co-author of The Monk and the Philosopher.

“Alan Wallace has done it again! In this new book he introduces that most ancient and revered Buddhist tradition of Mind-Training that has fostered compassion and human transformation over ten centuries. He presents it with such clarity and personal heart-engagement that it leaves no doubt that these teachings are just as fresh for Westerners today as they were for Tibetans in the past. And certainly needed with urgency.” —Francisco J. Varela, co-author of The Embodied Mind.

“Fourteen years a Tibetan Buddhist monk, with numerous meditation retreats under his belt, Alan Wallace then returned to American life, got a doctorate, and began to raise a family and teach. His multi-faceted background makes his own writings authentic and profound, as well as clear and illuminating for contemporary people who want to understand the wisdom of Tibet and use it to transform their lives.” —Robert A.F. Thurman, author of Inner Revolution.

B. Alan Wallace has devoted himself to the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation since 1970. After training for more than ten years at Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland, he studied physics at Amherst College. In 1995, he completed a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford University and now holds a teaching position at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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