The Path to Tranquility: Daily WisdomThe Dalai Lama serves as a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation for people of all religious traditions-as well as those with no religious affiliation at all. This collection of daily quotations drawn from His Holiness's own writings, teachings, and interviews offers words of guidance, compassion, and peace that are as down to earth as they are rich in spirit. Suffused with endearing informality, warmth, and practicality, they cover almost every aspect of human life, secular and religious--from loneliness, suffering, anger, and everyday insecurities to happiness, intimacy, and responsibility to others. With a special foreword by His Holiness on the power of meditation and personal responsibility, The Path to Tranquility is a fresh and accessible spiritual treasure to return to day after day, year after year. |
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According to tantra altruism anger APRIL attachment attain attitude AUGUST aware basic become bodhicitta bodhisattva body Buddha Buddhahood Buddhist calm causes compassion consciousness cultivate Dalai Lama death DECEMBER Delusion dependent origination develop Dharamsala Dharma dream emotions enemies everything existence experience FEBRUARY feel Four Noble Truths genuine guru happiness harm hatred heart Holiness’s human illusory important individual inner interdependent JANUARY Jeffrey Hopkins joyous effort JULY JUNE karma karmic kind knowledge laziness lives Mahayana man’s MARCH means meditation mental mind motivation nature negative actions never nirvana NOVEMBER object OCTOBER one’s ourselves path patience peace person physical possible practitioner problems qualities rebirth religion Reprinted by arrangement responsibility samsara Samsara–our conditioned self-cherishing sense sentient SEPTEMBER shunyata sleep smiles society someone Speech and bodily spiritual practice suffering talk teacher teachings Tenzin Gyatso things Tibet Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism Tranquil true violence wisdom