BUDDHISM WITH AN ATTITUDE: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training, by B. Alan Wallace

BUDDHISM WITH AN ATTITUDE: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training

by B. Alan Wallace

"Readers who put the advice this book contains into practice may indeed transform their minds and achieve a sense of inner peace, the key to greater peace and happiness within and in the world at large."--The Dalai Lama

"This book places you into a new domain where the world actually becomes the meditation hall...a book to guide both beginners and seasoned meditatiors, a book to be read, reread, and studied."--Buddhist Peace Fellowship

"Widely informed, intellectually rigorous, and passionately engaged."--Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs

"Dr. Wallace's versatility in the cognitive sciences offers a unique amplification for our understanding of such topics as primordial wisdom, consciousness, meditative stabilization, and bringing adversity onto the path of liberation. Through Seven-Point Mind Training, Wallace shows us the way to develop attitudes that unveil our capacity for spiritual awaking..."-- Branches of Light of Banyan Books

"His approach is the best because the individual slogans are much too abbreviated to stand alone as statements."--Quest Magazine

All of us have attitudes. Some of them accord with reality and serve us well throughout the course of our lives. Others are out of alignment with reality, and cause us problems. Tibetan Buddhist practice isn't just sitting in silent meditation, it's developing fresh attitudes that align our minds with reality. Attitudes need adjusting, just like a spinal column that has been knocked out of alignment. B. Alan Wallace explains a fundamental type of Buddhist mental training called lojong, which can literally be translated as attitudinal training. It is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure well-springs of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes and frustrations.

The author draws on his thirty-year training in Buddhism, physics, the cognitive sciences, and comparative religion to challenge readers to reappraise many of their assumptions about the nature of the mind and physical world. By explicitly addressing many practical and theoretical issues that uniquely face us in the modern world, Wallace brings this centuries-old practice into the twenty-first century.

Wallace shows us the way to develop attitudes that unveil our full capacity for spiritual awakening and discover in ourselves an unfleeting "truth-given joy."

B. Alan Wallace is the president of the Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness (http://sbinstitute.com).

For more information on Alan, visit his website at http://www.alanwallace.org.

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(see also The Seven Point Mind Training)

1559392002 (paperback)

BUDDHISM WITH AN ATTITUDE: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training

by B. Alan Wallace