Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00WRNL0FM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 554 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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HarbinCreative said One of the Best Books on Lojong and Mind Training. I've looked into the lojong training technique to train one's mind and ultimately to be more compassionate. I was first exposed to this method through reading Pema Chondron and her explanation of the seven-point mind training technique. I have also perused B. Alan Wallace's book on the subject with a decided Tibetan approach. I am sorry to say that I had not come across Norman Fischer until getting this jewel of a book. Fischer is an excellent and brilliant writer and long-. nattygerette said This book is an amazing tool and lifesaver.. I bought this book because when I run, I listen to podcasts from Spirit Rock and the Insight Meditation Center. Norman FIscher's talks are always my favorites. He has a sense of humor and way of speaking clearly and pragmatically and uplifts the human language to a new degree of thinking. His 59 slogans can be used easily and I find myself going back to this book as a reference guide when I feel like Im getting off the path of compassion. I work in an emergency room where p. "It's not often I come across a book that I" according to William A. Miller. It's not often I come across a book that I feel I should carry around and meditate on for the rest of my life, but this is one of them. The commentary is both concise and practical, and it can be of use to anyone regardless of their religious background.There are cases here and there where I thought the author's wording of the aphorism he's commenting on was somewhat misleading. For instance, where the author paraphrases one saying as "See everything as a dream," his elabor
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. It's in this spirit that Norman Fischer offers his commentary on the lojong slogans. He applies Zen wisdom to them, showing how well they fit in that related tradition, but he also sets the slogans in the context of resonant practices throughout the spiritual traditions. Through the influence of Pema Chödrön, who was one of the first American Buddhist teachers to teach it extensively, the practice has moved out of its Buddhist context to affect the lives of non-Buddhists, too. He shows lojong to be a wonderful method for everyone, including those who aren't otherwise interested in Buddhism, who don't have the time or inclination to meditate, or who'd just like to morph into the kind of person who's focused rather than scattered, generous rather than stingy, and kind rather than thoughtless.. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works