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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN num: 9781590300510
ISBN number: 1590300513
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: July 29, 2003
Publishing house: Shambhala
Release Date: July 29, 2003
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Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the world as it is. The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training. They emphasize meeting the ordinary situations of life with intelligence and compassion under all circumstances. Slogans include, 'Don't be swayed by external circumstances,' 'Be grateful to everyone,' and 'Always maintain only a joyful mind.' This edition contains a new foreword by Pema Chödrön.
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"Give up any possibilities of becoming the greatest person in the world by your training [, or] that you will be invited to more little clubs and gatherings by your proteges or friends who are impressed with you."
It's like that.
The very first time he saw this book, Trungpa says, "I was relieved that Buddhism was so simple and that you could actually do something about it. You can actually practice. You can just follow the book and do as it says."
Rules of thumb, away from your reading chair.
I prefer to read, not practice. I am a snob for exotic lingo and mind-bending concepts, any chance to show my cleverness. This book turns me around, the way a long walk with a deaf grandmother would. Whatever clever thing I say, she only nods, looking ahead, and points alongside our path: "Gather these, over here" and "scatter those, over there."
Gather these.
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Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! This book deserves any practicing Buddhist's attention. I've been Buddhist for a little over 2 years, and I wouldn't say I'm a very good one, but I feel that in the heart of all of Buddha's Dharma is Bohdichitta, the cultivation of loving-kindness. No book has been more useful to me in this practice; it is basically the mentality necessary to keep us from straying from the path of enlightenment eloquently spoken by The Venerable Chogyam Trungpa. Once one read and contemplates these slogans and their meaning they seem to rest in the back of the mind and as the introduction states they will rise at the time when they are need to stop your habitual mind's process(usually at the very first thought). I recommend anyone who truly wants to change they're entire mentality to read this book, and any other book's that are based on loving-kindness or the seven points of mind training slogans.
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This book will be loved and adored by any person, whether they are experienced buddhists or just looking for some practical ways to deal with life's problems.
Chogyam Trungpa energetically relays an ancient but practical and relevant text to a modern western audience.
Easy to read yet deep and insightful.
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I was turned off by the idea of "slogans," and did not read this book the very first few times I came across it. However, when I began studying Tong Len, (Unconditional Giving and Taking during the In and Out breath), I found several pages of very good commentary on Tong Len in this book. The slogan says something like, "Unconditional Giving rides the Out Breath, Unconditional Taking rides the In Breath." but when you read what all this means, it is truly the essence of buddhism. (I think this slogan originates from the Way Of The Bodhisattva or Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Santideva or Shantideva, which is an excellent book in any of the several English translations now available.) Chogyam Trungpa can be flippant and condescending, which he calls "heavy handed," and explains as a form of compassion. This may or may not be accurate. As a reader, take the parts of this book that resonate with your inner compassion, and let the other parts lie.
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