The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings |
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 | This book begins with an introduction to the necessity of world peace and compassion, therefore I think, brings us all to a common ground. The Dalai Lama displays an extraordinary understanding of the world, and finds common ground in how we can effectively move forward as a race.
However this book soon embraces heavy Buddhist philosophy, and abstract concepts which, although they make sense, take a lot of getting used to for the average westerner. New to Buddhism, I enthusiastically tried to read the book in one day, and consequently could barely sleep for all the new ideas buzzing round my head. This book needs to be read slowly and given time to digest and think about, I would recommend that it is coupled with meditation. Just a simple breathing meditation would help calm the mind and deal with some of these difficult concepts.
However, although I am only about halfway through, this book provides a clear, open and well reasoned access to Buddhist thought and I would recommend ... read more.
Written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C Cutler and Edited by Rajiv Mehrotra.
Published 05 December 2005.
Published by Mobius.
rrp £10.99.
272 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0340834951
ISBN-13: 9780340834954 | |
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