The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness

by Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins

Book Overview

The Dalai Lama reveals how training the mind in compassion for other beings is directly related to--and a prerequisite for--the very pinnacle of Buddhist meditation

The heart of meditation--the thing that brings it alive--is compassion. This is not an ordinary compassion but one that is developed and expanded in parallel with wisdom that arises through meditation. Without that essential foundation, other practices are pointless. Fortunately,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611804086
• ISBN13: 9781611804089
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"