A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices For Connecting With Others

by Jeffrey Hopkins, Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword)

The Dalai Lama often says "Kindness is society." By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us. Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives A Truthful Heart is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal—even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us will welcome this timely vision for humanity. This is a new edition of Cultivating Compassion.

Genres: Buddhism, Spirituality

226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 4, 2008

About the author

Paul Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973; B.A. English Literature, Harvard University, 1963), served for a decade as the chief English-language interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.

Reviews

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

_A Truthful Heart_ is a fine introduction to Tibetan Buddhist meditation and practicing compassion. Each chapter would make a good small group session, especially coupled with putting the wisdom of that chapter into practice each week, and sharing those experiences with the group.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow. I guess trying to become a nice guy is going to be hard work. I am attracted to much of Buddhist practice, and many of the meditations suggested in this book I am finding useful. But they lose me when they start focusing on the different types of hells and nightmare monsters.

[Hollis Fishelson-holstine · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book focuses on meditations to increase your compassion. I liked it better at the start, but then I felt like his personality came through too much. It's also a difficult practice and one you have to cultivate over a long period of time. - REALLY didn't like the 2nd time

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written! It was a wonderful read. An ooh Inspiring read for sure

[Sandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great and helpful book. Loved it!