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How to Practice

The Way to a Meaningful Life

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 Find lasting happiness, inner peace, and enlightenment through the Dalai Lama’s timeless teachings on mindfulness, compassion, and the Buddhist path to wisdom.

As human beings, we all seek happiness and a sense of meaning in our lives. In How to Practice, His Holiness the Dalai Lama—spiritual leader of Tibet, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and internationally bestselling author—shows how true fulfillment begins within. Drawing from centuries of Buddhist wisdom, he offers a clear, step-by-step path to cultivating morality, meditation, and wisdom, the three essential elements of enlightenment.

Through practical teachings on compassion, mindfulness, and self-awareness, the Dalai Lama helps readers overcome daily obstacles such as anger, jealousy, and insecurity. With warmth, humor, and clarity, he reveals how to open your heart, live ethically, and achieve lasting mental tranquility. How to Practice is both a profound spiritual manual and a gentle companion for anyone seeking peace in a modern, distracted world.©2002 His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins, All Rights Reserved; (P)2002 Simon & Schuster, Inc.; SOUND IDEAS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Buddhism Eastern Philosophy
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loved it and will be taking what I have listened to into my daily life.

How to practise

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Meditation as a way of Life, start slowly for ten minutes and try to do it at least for 3 times a day, it will be difficult and keep on bringing yourself to your breath in and out. I enjoyed the Audible as it progressed it showed what it is like to be a monk and showed what things to concentrate on after you have done the Meditation and gave different thoughts to think about and consider it. The narrator was superb and had been involved with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and worked as a Translator for the Dalai Lama. I will listen to this Audible again as I try to Meditate for myself.

Meditation

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I found this book very hard to understand a little bit beyond my intelligence.
But what I can understand is that he has a very special wisdom.

I found this book very hard to understand

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I am profoundly disturbed by the references to Tantra in this audiobook especially mention of eating human feces and urine as “ambrosia”, this in the context of when the Dalai Lama states sometimes being okay for a Monk to have sex with a “consort”. On researching this Tantric teaching I discovered such Buddhist “consorts” have at times be non-consensual sexual partners, which is horrific: one can only imagine the social pressures brought to bear in a Buddhist developing country and even in the West in context of vulnerable people drawn into a religious setting, which the Dalai Lama has indeed been slow to condemn: pressure both on the “consort” and perhaps also the initiate, who has now gone too far in agreeing to undergo such a Tantric ceremony and does not wish to lose face by refusing to participate once they understand what is at stake since they are by means of the ceremony in a position of complete obedience to their Lama. Such Tantra is in shocking opposition to the advice to respect all beings - but such contradictions should not come as a surprise in the context of Tantra which may involve learning acceptance of otherwise shocking experiences as a way of teaching. The Dalai Lama’s endorsement of Tantra profoundly undermines this book’s other more ethical advice and actually raised questions about his personal integrity. It’s eye-opening once you understand the implications of what he is saying.

Let down by endorsement of Tantra

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