Description - Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection by Lama Tsomo
Award-winning author Lama Tsomo provides insights and practices to
enrich our relationships, be mindfully and joyfully present in the
world, and deepen our understanding of ourselves.
The tide of
modern life is sweeping us even further into isolation--away from each
other, from the world, from ourselves. To turn this tide, Lama Tsomo has
created the latest addition to her Ancient Wisdom for Our Times series: Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection. Building on the ideas and practices in the first two books--Why Bother: An Introduction and Wisdom Compassion (Starting with Yourself)--this new volume actively engages readers, expanding our understanding and guiding our practice in the several key areas.
The Four Boundless Qualities.
Loving Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity are not
lofty, abstract sentiments. They are practical capacities that we can
all cultivate for the benefit, as Buddhists say, of ourselves and
others. Lama Tsomo teaches us how.
Forgiveness. This is
essential to our inner well-being--if we want to move on in our lives,
and to move closer to others, we must be able to forgive. Resentment is
the most destructive form of stress. As someone once said, hanging on to
resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to
die. Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection shows us that we don't need to forget to forgive.
Near Enemies. Lama
Tsomo's explanation of the Buddhist concept of "near enemies" is a true
eye-opener: she explains how we can stop fooling ourselves into
thinking some of our shortcomings are actually virtues.
Sublime Insight.
Her patient guidance into the principles and practice of Vipassana
(Sublime Insight) offers us ways to experience reality in its complexity
and simplicity. (Buddhism was thousands of years ahead of quantum
physics on this one.) You'll never see the world, or yourself, the same
way again.
Written with the conversational clarity and generous
dashes of humor she's brought to her retreats at the Namchak Retreat
Ranch and award-winning titles such as Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling? and The Lotus and the Rose,
Lama Tsomo's latest is the culmination of decades of deep practice and
scholarly inquiry, filled with real-world examples, beautiful
illustrations, practice cards, and links to online support. Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection is an authentic guide to compassionate awareness and a salve against a growingly disconnected world.
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