Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan teacher from the Nyingma tradition, dedicated to preserving and disseminating Tibetan Buddhist teachings. His work focuses on translating ancient wisdom for Western audiences. Rinpoche's approach makes profound philosophical and meditative practices accessible through clear texts. His writings aim to enrich spiritual lives and foster inner peace and understanding.
In a series of short but penetrating essays, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku examines how language and perception condition our sense of reality, and how 'I', 'me', "mine" and 'mind' both facilitate and limit our understanding of ourselves. A closer look at time and the operations of mind opens up a startling possibility: our ability to contact transformative knowledge may be far greater than we realize.
In The Joy of Being, Tarthang Tulku offers more than forty physical, sensory, and mental exercises that introduce us to new dimensions of enjoyment and pleasure. With more than forty exercises and practices, plus step-by-step figure illustrations photographed in full color. Featuring an introduction by Tarthang Tulku, as well as a new extended index.
33 essays drawn from interviews and Dharma Publishing book introductions provide an overview of the Buddhist path and meditation.
The long-awaited sequel to the classic Skillful Means: Patterns of Success, Mastering Successful Work shows how to make work into a path of realization and transformation -- an art form that blends practical results, deep enjoyment, and inner fulfillment. Cutting across disciplines such as management, psychology, communications studies, and spirituality, this book speaks to the need for work to express our highest values. It presents a step-by-step approach to penetrating obstacles and clearing up the negative consequences of past actions. This way of working activates our talents and intelligence, increasing personal enjoyment and deepening spiritual well-being while improving practical results in the world of work. Eighty-seven exercises, most of which can be done on the job. A major new work on integrating spiritual values with work. A 57-page Workbook supports practice of the exercises.
A pioneering book about using your daily work as a training ground for personal growth and transformation. Simple, direct teaching on bringing mindfulness alive at work, fostering positive attitudes and finding joy in getting results through your growing self- knowledge. A gentle, encouraging approach to living with greater inner freedom. Includes 24 exercises.
For the many people searching for ways to improve the quality of their lives, Openness Mind clearly explains the value of meditation and how to proceed with its practice. Defining meditation as a way of opening our minds to the richness of experience, this book emphasizes a practical approach that anyone can apply to develop awareness, transcend the limitations of self-image, improve concentration, and effect positive changes in their way of being. Here readers have an array of opportunities to reflect on experience and find their way through the layers of self-image, tension, fears, and emotions to the ground of authentic being.Openness Mind introduces visualization, meditation, breathing, and dream yoga techniques helpful to individuals in their daily activities.
Love of Foundations, Inquiries, and Paradigms for Transformation by Tarthang Tulku opens with an investigation into "technological knowledge," the patterns of knowing we all rely on, including the all-important distinction between the public and the private realms. The inquiry then shifts to the role of the self as the one who knows. Part Three of the book investigates a way of knowing in which there are no fixed positions, while Part Four explores the new forms of knowledge that become available when this "nosource" knowledge is put into operation.Carefully structured and rigorously implemented, Love of Knowledge has proved especially useful for those with advanced training in contemporary Western styles of thinking and knowing. Drawing on analysis and experience, it challenges all conventional claims to truth. Experiential exercises, graphics, poetry, and logic combine to stimulate creativity and open new sources of knowing.
Created to encourage readers to explore the liberating potential of mind, this book is a training in how to learn from all manner of experience and gain confidence in our inner resources. It lays out topics and practices in a clear and effective progression that leads the reader to directly experience mind's vital energy. Meditation and self-observation balance emotions, stabilizing concentration and deepening awareness. Awareness makes it possible to counteract laziness and tap the power of breath; breath steadied and vitalized through mantra smooths the flow of thoughts, empowering patience and lessening the grip of self image, allowing love and compassion to flow freely. At ease in the free-flowing energies of body and mind, one surrenders with gratitude to the teachings and rests in natural being. Like other books in the psychology series, it can be used for independent study and meditation, and it can also provide a structure for self-guided or group retreats.
