Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha-Nature

By Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Gautama Buddha

Book Overview

In this inspiring work, you will learn how to discover peace, transformation, and divine solutions to your everyday problems through the creativity of the Buddha-nature in your heart.
Quietly Comes the Buddha unfolds the story of Sumedha, the story of a soul becoming the Buddha, as it reveals his experiences during many lifetimes in the mastery of the "ten perfections," or virtues, that lead to Buddhahood. It shows how you, too, can cultivate these qualities--these ten habits of highly effective Buddhas-to-be--as you walk your own spiritual path.
This beautiful blend of prose and poetry, prayer and meditation also includes special sections of meditations on the heart for resolving conflicts and chakra meditations.
"This devotional text, firmly grounded in Buddhism but reaching out to embrace other teachings, has the potential for awakening in the heart an ardent desire for enlightenment. It both comforts and challenges."--Sonja Arntzen, scholar of Zen poetry and Japanese literature, author of Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology and The Kagero Diary

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0922729409
• ISBN13: 9780922729401
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Summit University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully Eloquent and Enjoyable

This is a wonderful, poetic journey on the path of the Buddha. It contains the challenges and victories of the soul mastering the ten perfections. I am still thoroughly enjoying it as a great accompaniment to meditation, as it is so rich and vivid in its descriptions, and very easy to understand. There are so many levels to the poetry, that I easily get caught in all the things that are said within one line, or one stanza. The 25th anniversary edition has some interesting mathematical formulae to meditate on as well. The publisher also offers a wonderful cd on their own website (www.tsl.org), which has the author reading the book to music. It is wonderful to listen to when I am driving alone, or working at a computer for long periods. If you are actively seeking something to help you with meditation, or just a something peaceful to read every now and then, or even an epic poem, you won't be disappointed. I absolutely love this book.