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A TRUTHFUL HEART: Buddhist Practices for Connecting with Others

by Jeffrey Hopkins, foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama often says, "Kindness is society." By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us.

Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives, A Truthful Heart is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal--and even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity.

“Jeffrey Hopkins has spent his life helping others to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and openheartedness. Read this warm and wonderful book and learn how, just as I have.”—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

“...a must-read for those who are searching for a path to a more joyful and fulfilling life.”—Goldie Hawn, actress

“One of the finest presentations of Tibetan Buddhist mind-training in print.”—Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs

“In six unobstructed steps [Hopkins] offers a clear how-to meditation manual on cultivating compassion, a major theme found in all Buddhist traditions. This book is refreshingly jargon-free, with everyday life applications. [A Truthful Heart] helps readers to explore the implications of the Dalai Lama’s oft-heard refrain, ‘We all want happiness and do not want suffering.’”—Publisher’s Weekly

"Jeffrey Hopkins...takes a traditional, step-wise approach to the complete doctrine of Buddhism, from practicing equanimity to realizing emptiness. These practices are central to Hopkins' life, and he gives an unprecedented, vivid account of his own incremental transformation. The lens of personal experience makes A Truthful Heart an accessible and practical text."—Shambhala Sun

"...an especially lovely book on the need for compassion and the way to cultivate it...tightly composed...Hopkins provides simple exercises for putting compassion into practice, something he emphasizes anyone can do."—Buddhadharma

“Delivered in straightforward prose and peppered with Hopkins’s wry observations and personal anecdotes, [the] exercises [in A Truthful Heart] have an appealing practicality.”—Shambhala Sun

"A welcome resource not only for Buddhist practitioners and those curious about the faith, but also for any reader regardless of religion seeking surcease from anger and pain, and desiring an increase of love and compassion within the world at large."--Library Bookwatch

This is a new edition of Cultivating Compassion.

Jeffrey Hopkins served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books and translations, he is emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program of Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West. He is the translator and editor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's How to Practice (2002), Kindness, Clarity and Insight (2006), and How to See Yourself as You Really Are (2006).

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