Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness by John Makransky - 9780861715374 - Compare Prices on New & Used Textbooks, Cheap Textbooks

Drawing from the author's life as a father, professor, Buddhist, and Buddhist teacher — as well as on pop culture references from Bob Dylan to Harry Potter — Awakening Through Love is a welcoming guide to achieving the deepest well-being and joy. Rooted in Buddhism’s Dzogchen tradition, the book teaches strategies for realizing a life imbued with love through Buddhist methods for fostering genuine caring and appreciation for others. To help readers achieve this state, the author presents practices and meditations for gradual cultivation and direct insight. He also provides a moving presentation of the role of a teacher, or “benefactor,” in deepening one’s spiritual path. Part of the book’s effectiveness is that it uncovers universal elements in Buddhist ideas and practices and renders them usable for a general audience, with many references to the adaptability of these methods for use in conjunction with the traditions of other religions.

		Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness by John Makransky, Lama Surya Das (Foreword) ISBN-10: 9780861715374 ISBN-10: 0-86171-537-3 ISBN-13: 9780861715374 ISBN-13: 978-0-86171-537-4 Paperback 2007-07-17 Wisdom Publications Find Lowest Price
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Product Description Drawing from the author's life as a father, professor, Buddhist, and Buddhist teacher — as well as on pop culture references from Bob Dylan to Harry Potter — Awakening Through Love is a welcoming guide to achieving the deepest well-being and joy. Rooted in Buddhism’s Dzogchen tradition, the book teaches strategies for realizing a life imbued with love through Buddhist methods for fostering genuine caring and appreciation for others. To help readers achieve this state, the author presents practices and meditations for gradual cultivation and direct insight. He also provides a moving presentation of the role of a teacher, or “benefactor,” in deepening one’s spiritual path. Part of the book’s effectiveness is that it uncovers universal elements in Buddhist ideas and practices and renders them usable for a general audience, with many references to the adaptability of these methods for use in conjunction with the traditions of other religions.
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Excellent for beginners and advanced meditators This book is a fantastic introduction to the meditations of love and compassion that John Makransky has been teaching for the past several years. New meditators will save a lot of trial and error by following the instructions, and will gain great perspective from the heartfelt personal stories that Lama John shares. There is also a CD of guided meditations available directly from the publisher and the Dzogchen Center bookstore that greatly enhances the value of the book as a support for daily practice. Buy one for yourself and for anyone that you truly care for.
Know what Love really is? Through the practices and examples in this book, John Makransky shows us how to unlock what was always here, our deepest goodness. This is the summit of all spiritual practice and its much more ordinary than we think. If you wish to realize and reclaim what what always essentially yours, read this book.
Life-changing... John Makransky has written a book that makes Tibetan Buddhist love and wisdom practices accessible to anyone. These practices have had a big impact on how I relate to the world and to myself. (I do not say this lightly.) Awakening Through Love is engaging and well researched. The practices are easy to follow...and will take you a long, long way.
~A gem~ This book is essentially a manual for love - receiving it, giving it, seeing it all around you, and bringing it out in all beings and situations. You could spend as little or as much time on each chapter, as each section reveals more and more every time you read it. Awakening through Love could be a great companion to the many other books on your shelf, or it could be a first concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and some of its practices. Either way, it is A GEM!
Something for everyone. Who doesn't want to become a more loving person? The love that's taught in this book you can learn to count on and the practices are do-able, even with short amounts of time available. You'll notice changes as you become more patient and open with yourself and others. Painful reactions melt over time as more truly loving responses become the norm. You'll be so grateful you bought this book and worked with it.