How Things Exist: Teachings on Emptiness
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How Things Exist: Teachings on Emptiness is a book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The book explains the importance of compassion and universal responsibility and how to make life meaningful. Moreover, explanations of the nature of the enlightened mind, ways to attain it were emphasized in the book. The book also provides an amazing and extensive explanation of emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality and teaching how to meditate on emptiness according to the author's personal experience. The author also touches on certain other significant main points of the path to enlightenment, such as bodhicitta, the three scopes and impermanence.[1]
Contents of the book[edit]
- Chapter 1 - Universal Responsibility
- Chapter 2 - How Things Exist
- Chapter 3 - Lam-rim and Meditation on Emptiness
- Chapter 4 - Different Ways of Looking at Things
- Chapter 5 - Merely Labeled
Editorial history[edit]
The book is first published in 2008 by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.[2]. The author is Lama Zopa Rinpoche and edited by Ailsa Cameron[1]
Further reading[edit]
Bibliography[1][edit]
- FPMT Education Department. Essential Buddhist Prayers. Portland:FPMT,2006.
- Gyatso, Tenzin, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Meaning of Life. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1992.
- Hopkins, Jeffrey. Meditation on Emptiness. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1983.
- Pabongka Rinpoche. Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1991.
- Rabten, Geshe, and Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. Advice from a Spiritual Friend. Wisdom Publications, 1977 and 1996.
- Tegchok, Geshe Jampa. The Kindness of Others. Lama Yeshe. Wisdom Archive, 2006.
- Tsongkhapa, Lama Je. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the path to Enlightenment. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2000-4.
- Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Thubten. The Joy of Compassion. Boston: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2006.
- Transforming Problems into Happiness. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 lywa (2015-05-01). "How Things Exist". www.lamayeshe.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive". www.lamayeshe.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
External links[edit]
- Universal Responsibility (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
- How Things Exist (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
- How Things Exist (PDF)
- How Things Exist: Volume 1, in Braille
- How Things Exist: Volume 2, in Braille
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