How to Understand the Mind (eBook)

The Nature and Power of the Mind

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Autor)

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2013 | 4. Auflage
Tharpa Publications (Verlag)
978-1-906665-83-8 (ISBN)

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This book offers us deep insight into our mind, and shows how an understanding of its nature and functions can be used practically in every day experience to improve our lives.

Part 1 is a practical guide to developing and maintaining a light, positive mind - showing how to recognize and abandon states of mind that arms us, and to replace them with peaceful and beneficial ones.

Part 2 describes different types of mind in detail, revealing the depth and profundity of the Buddhist understanding of the mind. It concludes with a detailed explanation of meditation, showing how by controlling and transforming our mind we can attain a lasting state of joy, independent of external conditions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2013
• Verlagsort: Ulverston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Bodhichitta • Buddhist idea of mind • Buddhist path • channels, winds and drops • cherishing living beings • cherishing others • Compassion • conceptual minds • correct beliefs • dangers of lower rebirth • Death • death in Buddhism • direct perceivers • eleven virtuous mental factors • five all-accompanying mental factors • five object-ascertaining mental factors • four changeable mental factors • great scope • gross, subtle and very subtle minds • hell in Buddhism • how the mind is able to move • initial scope • Karma • lower realms • Meditation • meditation on the mind • mental awareness • middling scope • mind in Buddhism • mind vs brain • non-ascertaining perceivers • non-conceptual minds • non-deluded doubts • precious human life • primary minds and mental factors • progressing along the path • re-cognizers • recognizing delusions • reducing anger • Refuge • Renunciation • samsaric rebirth • self-grasping ignorance • sense and mental awarenesses • six perfections • six root delusions • subsequent cognizers • twenty secondary delusions • ultimate truth of cessation • Understanding the mind • universal compassion • valid and non-valid cognizers • virtue, non-virtue and delusion • what is my mind • what is our mind • what is the mind • wrong awarenesses • yogic direct perceivers
• ISBN-10: 1-906665-83-4 / 1906665834
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906665-83-8 / 9781906665838