365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart

by Dalai Lama, Matthieu Ricard (Editor)

Overview

Imagine having an audience with the Dalai Lama every day, receiving personal advice about how to make your life better and more joyful.

365 Dalai Lama offers exactly that: short and inspiring words offering enlightening advice for everyday living.

The teachings in 365 Dalai Lama offer an opportunity to feel the focus and presence of the Dalai Lama as never before. His holiness shares his advice from the heart on a variety of topics including:

• Living and Growing Old
• Young People and Families
• Sickness and
• Dying
• Living in Poverty and Wealth
• Anger, Jealousy, Pride, and Desire
• Religion and Faith
• Sexual Desire and Homosexuality
• War and Politics
• Mindfulness and a Contemplative Life

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571746818
Publisher:	Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, is the exiled spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He is widely recognized as an advocate of world peace and has received many honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	VII
	Foreword	VIII
	Introduction: Meditations on living	1
	Meditations on young people	17
	Meditations on adulthood	36
	Meditations on growing old	43
	Meditations on men and women	49
	Meditations on the family	54
	Meditations on being single	71
	Meditations on community life	75
	Meditations on living a life of plenty	80
	Meditations on living in poverty	93
	Meditations on sickness	98
	Meditations on the disabled and their carers	102
	Meditations on the dying and their carers	106
	Meditations on working hard and having little spare time	119
	Meditations on prison and prisoners	121
	Meditations on homosexuality	130
	Meditations on politics	134
	Meditations on the legal system	141
	Meditations on the future of the world	146
	Meditations on education	148
	Meditations on science and technology	152
	Meditations on commerce and business	155
	Meditations on writing and journalism	158
	Meditations on farming and the environment	163
	Meditations on war	169
	Meditations on dedicating one's life to others	177
	Meditations on happiness	183
	Meditations on unhappiness	190
	Meditations on pessimism	200
	Meditations on fear	213
	Meditations on suicide	218
	Meditations on loneliness and isolation	222
	Meditations on anger	232
	Meditations on desire	244
	Meditations on jealousy	250
	Meditations on pride	257
	Meditations on trauma and suffering	261
	Meditations on shyness	271
	Meditation on indecisiveness	275
	Meditations on not loving yourself	276
	Meditations on addiction to alcohol or drugs	280
	Meditations on sexual desire	284
	Meditations on speaking mindlessly	289
	Meditations on criticizing others	294
	Meditations on causing suffering to others	299
	Meditations on indifference	308
	Meditations on religious belief	313
	Meditations on following no religion	321
	Meditations on monasticism and priesthood	333
	Meditation on leading a contemplative life	345
	Meditations on faith	346
	Meditations on sectarian prejudice	350
	Meditations on becoming a Buddhist	353
	Meditations on practising Buddhism	362