Ancient Wisdom for Our Times Tibetan Buddhist Practice

Tibetan Buddhist practice isn't just a matter of what, it's also a matter of how. This book shows you how. Why Is The Dalai Lama Always Smiling?, Lama Tsomo gives you the chance to try out these methods and see how they work for you. Wisdom & Compassion: Starting with Yourself provides a lively, approachable guide, sprinkled with humor, for people ready to begin applying the time-tested, lab-tested Tibetan practices to find happiness and peace in their own modern life. Through step-by-step instructions, photographs, and helpful explanations, Lama Tsomo shares practices that have been used for thousands of years, and teaches how we can experience the rich benefits of meditation. She offers techniques for sharpening our focus, enhancing our relationships, and living each day more mindfully, joyfully, and meaningfully. Included are a set of beautifully illustrated meditation cards, "Science Tidbits," a glossary of terms, and teachings and practices also presented in Namchak Foundation eCourses and retreats.

The tide of modern life is sweeping us even further into isolation-away from each other, from the world, from ourselves. Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection gives us insights and practices to turn the tide, so we can enrich our relationships, be more mindfully and joyfully present in the world, and deepen our understanding of ourselves. Building on the ideas and practices in the first two books in the series (Why Bother: An Introduction and Wisdom & Compassion (Starting with Yourself), Lama Tsomo actively engages readers, expanding our understanding and guiding our practice in key areas. The Four Boundless qualities-Loving Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, 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 is essential to our inner well-being-if we want to move on in our lives, and to move closer to others, we have to 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 in order to forgive. Lama Tsomo's explanation of the Buddhist concept of near enemies is a real eye-opener: she explains how we can stop fooling ourselves into thinking some of our shortcomings are actually virtues. 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. As in the previous books in the Ancient Wisdom for Our Times series, Lama Tsomo writes with conversational clarity and generous dashes of humor, providing examples, beautiful illustrations, practice cards, and links to online support.