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AN OPEN HEART: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

by the Dalai Lama, ed. by Nicholas Vreeland, afterword by Khyongla Rato and Richard Gere

208 pp., paperback, b&w illustrations.

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How does one actually become a compassionate person? What are the mechanisms by which a selfish heart is transformed into a generous heart? Here is a series of meditations used for this purpose--taken from three sacred texts: Kamalashila's Middle-Length Stages of Meditation, Togmay Sangpo's The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas: and Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind. These practices can be undertaken at odd moments of the day as well as formal practice periods to transform the mind into a disciplined and open mind.

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