The Way to Freedom: Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism

by Dalai Lama XIV

Book Overview

An introduction to Tibetan Buddhism which highlights the core teachings of the faith, based on a 15th-century text and presented in easy-to-follow steps. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060617225
• ISBN13: 9780060617226
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Rich in Wisdom and Powerfully Compassionate

I read this book at a time of crisis in my life and it was as if it had been written just for me! As someone who has had a strong interest in religious philosophy all my life and who has been particularly interested in Buddhism, I found in this book, the wisdom and the compassion I needed to confirm my own path toward personal freedom. A good antidote to the cynicism and adversarialism surrounding us. I think I'll read it again!

In the path to a happier and more fulfilling life

This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist thought. As someone who is just beginning to explore the precepts of Buddhism, this book gives a great summary of the basics. However, its true gift is that it challenges anyone who reads it to begin making changes in themselves in a way that would bring a positive influence in the world.

Free your mind with this book

Freedom is always thought to be do whatever you want to do, say whatever you want to say, go wherever you want to go, and think whatever you want to think. However, that's not ultimate freedom but simply freedom of the way we live and think.In this book, you can find the way to the ultimate freedom, the freedom of thoughts and the mind. After all these years of living, all of us are, borrow a term from the field of cognitive psychology, "conditioned" to think, say, behave in certain ways. No matter how we think we are "free" to do or think about certain things, we have already been conditioned through social learnings or our other experience. The truth, so to speak, is to unlearn all these and see the world from a totally different perspective. After reading this book, you will learn that things are not necessarily what they appear or you perceive them to be. All are in the working of the consciousness and the mind.If you want to find what is the ultimate freedom, the freedom of all worldly bondage, the freedom of the mind, you are looking at the right book. Buddhist beliefs are not myths. They are so accessible and easy to understand, no one should feel threatened by the fact that it is associated with a religion. I would recommend it to everyone, including believers of other religions.

It will become your most precious book!

If you are going to buy only one book about Buddhism, choose this one. You will feel as if His Holiness is talking with you personally, speaking directly to your heart, and the truth of His words will strike a very deep cord in your heart. This book left me with tears in my eyes many times, tears of intense emotion, happiness and fulfillement. I am a better person for having read it and there is no way I can properly express my gratitude to HH for having wrote it.

A short, easy to read introduction to Buddhist Teachings

"The Way to Freedom" is an wonderful introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Teachings. It introduces karma, suffering and death in a captivating, thought-provoking, inspiring, and easy to read style.