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In his first sermon at Deer Park, the historical Buddha spoke of the Four Noble Truths of sentient existence:
1. The existence of suffering, or dukkha
2. The cause of suffering (karma)
3. The cessation of suffering
4. The Path that leads to the cessation of suffering
This set of four videos collects a series of lectures on the Four Noble Truths given by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in 1997 in England. The lectures were a landmark event, bringing together for the first time in the West a nonsectarian Buddhist and lay audience for over six hours of emotional and intellectually challenging engagement with these central teachings of the Buddhist canon. The impressive intellect and scholarship of His Holiness is everywhere evident in these tapes as he traverses the expansive body of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. One also catches glimpses of his mischievous sense of humor and, of course, his inspiring compassion.
The first tape is a framework for the discussion of the Four Truths. His Holiness discusses the importance of developing a critical insight toward one's perceptions of reality, and he emphasizes the value of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) in finding the way to this insight. Though he begins in English, as he gets into the finer points of Tibetan philosophy he turns to his native language and speaks through a translator. The tape concludes in a lighthearted mode with a question-and-answer period, again in English, in which he giggles over the Western interest in finding the "quickest, cheapest, and most efficient" way to enlightenment.
The second tape addresses the First of the Truths, of dukkha, or suffering. Here His Holiness searches for the roots of this suffering in an understanding of cosmology, both among Buddhist writings and among the work of contemporary physicists, but ultimately he points to our human ignorance of the fleeting nature of pleasurable experience as the root cause.
Tape 3 opens with an analysis of the causes of suffering (the law of karma). He begins to set out the Buddhist path, which, he says, must always be grounded in the aspiration for "freedom from samsara"--life amid the world of afflictive emotions. In the most impassioned moment of the hours of lectures, His Holiness uses his surprisingly deft English to explain how our emotions are the true "enemy" and destroyer of all of our happiness and health. If you believe, he argues, that one can do something about one's feelings of greed, anger, etc., then one should dedicate oneself to study and mental training to root out the afflictive emotions and foster the positive emotions. The end of tape 3 briefly addresses the Third Truth, of the cessation of suffering.
Finally, tape 4, which is peppered with references to classical Buddhist texts, takes up the Path (The Eight-Fold Path, as it is usually called) to "direct, intuitive realization of emptiness." At the root of this path, His Holiness says that one most foster bodhichitta, the altruistic desire to attain enlightenment for oneself so that one may help others. He recommends that one devote oneself, above all else, to seeing oneself as interconnected with all other beings. To stay on the Path, one must be devoted to single-point meditation and analytical meditation. And one must be determined. Enlightenment may, he admits, take eons.
One curiosity of the videos is the cameraperson's roving eye. Frequently, the picture will settle on a rapt or amused audience member. On a couple of occasions, the faces in the audience are famous: John Cleese and various British TV personalities. Each of the four videos also includes a brief introduction by Tibetan Buddhism scholar Robert Thurman, who contextualizes the lectures within the many Buddhist traditions. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Dalai Lama XIV
1,554 books6,204 followersJetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub), the 14th Dalai Lama, is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most famous Buddhist monk, and the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India.
Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.
On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talks ultimately failed.
After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.
Tenzin Gyatso is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker. This Dalai Lama is the first to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007.
Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.
On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talks ultimately failed.
After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.
Tenzin Gyatso is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker. This Dalai Lama is the first to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007.
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February 5, 2025
Probably your best introduction to unhappiness and its root - and then its peaceful resolution in equanimity - AKA, as a contemporary writer so crudely put it, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***.
Except that's not quite it.
Equanimity is seeing through yourself and realizing you're no big deal. Christians call it Grace, because we can now lean on Someone Higher and learn to relax our souls. And, after all, our pesky problems are now no big deal either. How's that happen?
By knowing yourself inside and out WITHIN the world. Buddha called that the Four Noble Truths. I'll get to those in a moment...
But, back in the beginning of the Millenium, we travelled to the Saguenay Valley in Northern Quebec. My mother-in-law, you see, had recently moved to a seniors' residence in her mid-sized town.
We were staying at a cosy little bed-and-breakfast down the street from the residence, and some fellow lodgers asked what I was reading. I said some Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan author.
They asked me what he preached, so I said, "the Four Noble Truths:
1. To live is to suffer ('life is Tough and then you Die');
2. Suffering is caused by thirsting attachment ('get me a beer while you're up!');
3. Suffering can be ended by reaching equanimity (an equal mind at all times); and
4. Equanimity is reached by eight steps (sorta like a Standard Ethical Operating Procedure)."
Does this work, you ask?
OK - let's ask Socrates... Hey, Socrates!
Get this: Socrates says we attain equanimity by Knowing Ourselves (and that's assuming you get what the world around you is up to too). Cause if we do then know ourselves, we see THROUGH ourselves! Then, of course, it's game over for our egos!
Trungpa says it's as if an enormous Blue Pancake - the sky - fell on us. Heh, heh. Goodbye, phony egos. Ours and the world’s!
In modern times, though, I'll take the epochal New Yorker writer E.B. White as my role model for equanimity. That guy was Mr. Cool. EXCEPT when he was besieged by his pet neuroses (typical Easterner?) - but just because you've shed your ego doesn't mean you don't have those.
Some folks DO have 'em. Enlightenment isn't la-la land, it's just removing those masks of ours. I think, though perhaps, as Buddha later said according to some - this thing called enlightenment isn't really there.
That said, though, I would gladly find an end to my senior citizens' pains!
Say, your holiness, can I get some of that there equanimity elixir -
WHOLESALE -
And that ultimate, Final Dissolution of my cranky old timer’s Self?
Except that's not quite it.
Equanimity is seeing through yourself and realizing you're no big deal. Christians call it Grace, because we can now lean on Someone Higher and learn to relax our souls. And, after all, our pesky problems are now no big deal either. How's that happen?
By knowing yourself inside and out WITHIN the world. Buddha called that the Four Noble Truths. I'll get to those in a moment...
But, back in the beginning of the Millenium, we travelled to the Saguenay Valley in Northern Quebec. My mother-in-law, you see, had recently moved to a seniors' residence in her mid-sized town.
We were staying at a cosy little bed-and-breakfast down the street from the residence, and some fellow lodgers asked what I was reading. I said some Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan author.
They asked me what he preached, so I said, "the Four Noble Truths:
1. To live is to suffer ('life is Tough and then you Die');
2. Suffering is caused by thirsting attachment ('get me a beer while you're up!');
3. Suffering can be ended by reaching equanimity (an equal mind at all times); and
4. Equanimity is reached by eight steps (sorta like a Standard Ethical Operating Procedure)."
Does this work, you ask?
OK - let's ask Socrates... Hey, Socrates!
Get this: Socrates says we attain equanimity by Knowing Ourselves (and that's assuming you get what the world around you is up to too). Cause if we do then know ourselves, we see THROUGH ourselves! Then, of course, it's game over for our egos!
Trungpa says it's as if an enormous Blue Pancake - the sky - fell on us. Heh, heh. Goodbye, phony egos. Ours and the world’s!
In modern times, though, I'll take the epochal New Yorker writer E.B. White as my role model for equanimity. That guy was Mr. Cool. EXCEPT when he was besieged by his pet neuroses (typical Easterner?) - but just because you've shed your ego doesn't mean you don't have those.
Some folks DO have 'em. Enlightenment isn't la-la land, it's just removing those masks of ours. I think, though perhaps, as Buddha later said according to some - this thing called enlightenment isn't really there.
That said, though, I would gladly find an end to my senior citizens' pains!
Say, your holiness, can I get some of that there equanimity elixir -
WHOLESALE -
And that ultimate, Final Dissolution of my cranky old timer’s Self?
May 2, 2020
What could possible go wrong when His Holiness writes a book. Short yet full of so many truths and thoughts.
November 14, 2019
Es increible como Dalai Lama se las arregla para transmitir sus pensamientos con tanata claridad haciendo que el lector los capte fácilmente y se de tiempo a reflexionar sobre el mundo en que se vive hoy en dia. Creo que es un libro bastante filosófico, donde Dalai se encarga de explicarnos como TODO tiene su causa, como piensa acerca de las diferentes religiones y sobre todo, nos da una oportunidad de conocer un poquito mejor el budismo.
August 27, 2018
Sách trình bày về lí do cần tôn trọng lẫn nhau, tôn trọng những người theo tôn giáo khác nhau trong phần dẫn nhập.
Sách xoay quanh 4 chủ đề chính:
1. Có 3 dạng khổ đau: khổ khổ, khổ do thay đổi và khổ do duyên sinh.
_ Lí do chúng ta khổ vì vô minh, tập quen cũ, khổ vì bám víu vào cảm giác. Một dẫn chứng là nếu bám vào cảm giác đó là hạnh phúc thì tại sao càng có nó thì hp không càng tăng lên?
2. Nguồn gốc khổ đau do nghiệp chi phối. Các ham muốn được cái này hoặc tránh cái kia là biểu hiện cho thấy mình còn tin vào một thứ hằng còn, không thay đổi nào đó.
3. Cách chấp dứt khổ đau: Dựa vào nhận biết về tánh không, tiến trình nhân duyên nên sự vật sẽ thay đổi. Từ việc biết đến điều này, để có mối nghi ngờ có nhiều lập luận tin là đúng trỉa nghiệm trong cuộc sống xem nó đúng không làm nhiều nhiều thành thói quen.
4. Chỉ ra 3 con đường của thanh văn thừa, đại thừa và bồ tát thừa.
_ Thanh văn thì đi theo tuần tự: giới, định( chỉ và quán), từ nếp đó sẽ có tuệ giác về tánh không.
_ Đại thừa: Chú trọng 2 phương diện tích lũy công đức và trí tuệ. Chú trọng tâm từ bi.
_ Bồ tát thừa: chú trọng tâm bồ đề gồm tâm từ và tâm mong muốn đạt đến giác ngộ.
2 phần phụ lục cuối sách không ấn tượng gì.
Sách xoay quanh 4 chủ đề chính:
1. Có 3 dạng khổ đau: khổ khổ, khổ do thay đổi và khổ do duyên sinh.
_ Lí do chúng ta khổ vì vô minh, tập quen cũ, khổ vì bám víu vào cảm giác. Một dẫn chứng là nếu bám vào cảm giác đó là hạnh phúc thì tại sao càng có nó thì hp không càng tăng lên?
2. Nguồn gốc khổ đau do nghiệp chi phối. Các ham muốn được cái này hoặc tránh cái kia là biểu hiện cho thấy mình còn tin vào một thứ hằng còn, không thay đổi nào đó.
3. Cách chấp dứt khổ đau: Dựa vào nhận biết về tánh không, tiến trình nhân duyên nên sự vật sẽ thay đổi. Từ việc biết đến điều này, để có mối nghi ngờ có nhiều lập luận tin là đúng trỉa nghiệm trong cuộc sống xem nó đúng không làm nhiều nhiều thành thói quen.
4. Chỉ ra 3 con đường của thanh văn thừa, đại thừa và bồ tát thừa.
_ Thanh văn thì đi theo tuần tự: giới, định( chỉ và quán), từ nếp đó sẽ có tuệ giác về tánh không.
_ Đại thừa: Chú trọng 2 phương diện tích lũy công đức và trí tuệ. Chú trọng tâm từ bi.
_ Bồ tát thừa: chú trọng tâm bồ đề gồm tâm từ và tâm mong muốn đạt đến giác ngộ.
2 phần phụ lục cuối sách không ấn tượng gì.
October 15, 2014
Very good introduction starting with the 2 basic principles of 1. Interdependent nature of reality and 2. non-violence. Followed by taking refuge and generating bodhichitta. Brief explanations of dependent origination and the 2 truths. All that to set the grounds for understanding the 4 noble truths.
One of the best introductions I have read. Would recommend it as a starter and for ongoing contemplation. The rest is just as good. Clear, concise, shows where to focus attention.
One of my top 10 Buddhist books.
One of the best introductions I have read. Would recommend it as a starter and for ongoing contemplation. The rest is just as good. Clear, concise, shows where to focus attention.
One of my top 10 Buddhist books.
December 30, 2022
Interesting introduction. Gives you a lot to think about. On the other hand, I was sometimes confused by all the numbers and concepts and different schools having different concepts. MAybe you should not read it as a first introduction to Buddhism :)
October 22, 2017
Absolutely inspirational!
December 2, 2024
just talking
these book are just talking. it like learning martial art by the mouth and ear. it just pointing out the suffering what about the way to practice to ease off the suffering.
these book are just talking. it like learning martial art by the mouth and ear. it just pointing out the suffering what about the way to practice to ease off the suffering.
October 4, 2020
Bastante aprendizaje de perspectivas profundas, principalmente sobre la genuinidad de la compasión y su importancia
June 26, 2019
Read this a few years ago. Pasting some quotes I noted here.
“Underlying the strong emotional responses we have to situations, we see that there is an assumption that some kind of independently existing reality exists out there. In this way, we develop an insight into the various functions of the mind and the different levels of consciousness within us. We also grow to understand that although certain types of mental or emotional states seem so real, and although objects appear to be so vivid, in reality they are mere illusions.”
“When this is combined with an understanding of the interdependent nature of reality at the subtlest level, then we also gain insight into what we call ‘the empty nature of reality’, by which we mean the way each and every object and event arises only as a combination of many factors, and has no independent or autonomous existence.”
“Our insight into emptiness will, of course, help us to understand that any ideas that are based on the contrary view, that things exist intrinsically and independently, are misapprehensions...”
“Gradually we come to appreciate that it is possible to arrive at a state of knowledge where such misapprehension is eliminated completely; that is the state of cessation.”
“Underlying the strong emotional responses we have to situations, we see that there is an assumption that some kind of independently existing reality exists out there. In this way, we develop an insight into the various functions of the mind and the different levels of consciousness within us. We also grow to understand that although certain types of mental or emotional states seem so real, and although objects appear to be so vivid, in reality they are mere illusions.”
“When this is combined with an understanding of the interdependent nature of reality at the subtlest level, then we also gain insight into what we call ‘the empty nature of reality’, by which we mean the way each and every object and event arises only as a combination of many factors, and has no independent or autonomous existence.”
“Our insight into emptiness will, of course, help us to understand that any ideas that are based on the contrary view, that things exist intrinsically and independently, are misapprehensions...”
“Gradually we come to appreciate that it is possible to arrive at a state of knowledge where such misapprehension is eliminated completely; that is the state of cessation.”
August 29, 2018
This was a recommend from my little brother and like most of his recommends, it did not disappoint. What stuck out to me is the Dalai Lama's call for expanding emotional intelligence and empathy. Both are invaluable tools that help shape the most important parts of our day and yet many of us spend the least amount of time developing these skills. I was inspired by his devotion to optimism and his commitment to nonviolence. I love that the Dalai Lama views all religions as meaningful. It seems like he is saying that religions are lenses with which to view the world but that they aren't meant to be methods of separation. I wish more religions had this approach to each other.
There was admittedly a lot I didn't understand about the Dalai Lama's sect of Buddhism, but it didn't stop me from reading or being interested. The way that he frames the explanations gives you the sense that he is trying to improve your life and not convert you.
I'm sure that this is a book that I could (and will) go back to many times and will continue to get great meaning out of. I'm grateful that I got a chance to read it.
There was admittedly a lot I didn't understand about the Dalai Lama's sect of Buddhism, but it didn't stop me from reading or being interested. The way that he frames the explanations gives you the sense that he is trying to improve your life and not convert you.
I'm sure that this is a book that I could (and will) go back to many times and will continue to get great meaning out of. I'm grateful that I got a chance to read it.
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December 29, 2025"We are social animals, after all, and friends are very important. How can you bring a smile to people's faces? If you remain stony and suspicious, it is very difficult."
Damn, I'm sorry... 😅
Jokes aside, reading this made me feel a bit more positive. Some of the things here are what I've already been practicing (or intellectualizing at least) but sometimes forget. Admittedly felt a bit uncomfortable on some parts but only because I felt like I'm being lectured face-to-face on what I may have been refusing to recognize. Finished this in a day!
"The real destroyer of our happiness is always there within us."
"When you have developed a certain understanding of emptiness, albeit an intellectual one, you will have a new outlook on things and events which you can compare to your usual responses. You will notice how much we tend to project qualities on to the world. More especially, you will realise that most of our strong emotions arise from assuming the reality of something that is unreal. In this way you may be able to gain an experiential sense of the disparity between the way you perceive things and the way things really are."
Damn, I'm sorry... 😅
Jokes aside, reading this made me feel a bit more positive. Some of the things here are what I've already been practicing (or intellectualizing at least) but sometimes forget. Admittedly felt a bit uncomfortable on some parts but only because I felt like I'm being lectured face-to-face on what I may have been refusing to recognize. Finished this in a day!
"The real destroyer of our happiness is always there within us."
"When you have developed a certain understanding of emptiness, albeit an intellectual one, you will have a new outlook on things and events which you can compare to your usual responses. You will notice how much we tend to project qualities on to the world. More especially, you will realise that most of our strong emotions arise from assuming the reality of something that is unreal. In this way you may be able to gain an experiential sense of the disparity between the way you perceive things and the way things really are."
January 30, 2022
Me gustó como introducción al budismo y aunque. No tengo un apego emocional con este libro, y además, mi amigo personal el Dalai Lama a veces me confundía mucho, así que no le puedo dar más de tres estrellas, pero me identifiqué con la filosofía budista y siento que podría seguirle.
Tiene muchos conceptos chidos aunque son demasiados para alguien que va iniciando.
Tiene muchos conceptos chidos aunque son demasiados para alguien que va iniciando.
March 13, 2022
“Solange Raum existiert,
Solange es Wesen gibt,
Möge ich verweilen,
Um das Leid der Wesen zu beseitigen.”
(p. 118)
Solange es Wesen gibt,
Möge ich verweilen,
Um das Leid der Wesen zu beseitigen.”
(p. 118)
February 16, 2021
‘Ojos rasgados’, de la escritora taiwanesa Elena Li Chow, nos ofrece relatos para percibir matices de la realidad social asiática. Cultura y tradiciones que configuran la vida de personajes en Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong o las estepas de Mongolia.
Denuncia social mediante historias, como la de pescador de cadaveres que lucra con muertos o suicidas, que flotan en el río Amarillo, pero teme encontrar a su pareja sentimental entre los cuerpos en descomposición; o el aniversario de la “Revolución de los paraguas”, cuando miles de manifestantes protestaron pacíficamente contra la intervención de China en las elecciones en Honk Kong; así como los desalojos colectivos del gobierno chino, para apropiarse de casas populares para demolerlas y construir edificios acordes a la modernidad imperante.
A nivel familiar, el pago del dote por una prometida, los matrimonios arreglados y la dificultad de encontrar pareja en una sociedad desbalanceada en género por la intervención gubernamental que prohibió tener más de un hijo por familias (preferían a los varones para perpetuar el apellido). En su opera prima, Li Chow nos entrega trece cuentos que, además de entretener, nos invitan a reflexionar sobre los lineamiento sociales que condicionan nuestra vida.
Denuncia social mediante historias, como la de pescador de cadaveres que lucra con muertos o suicidas, que flotan en el río Amarillo, pero teme encontrar a su pareja sentimental entre los cuerpos en descomposición; o el aniversario de la “Revolución de los paraguas”, cuando miles de manifestantes protestaron pacíficamente contra la intervención de China en las elecciones en Honk Kong; así como los desalojos colectivos del gobierno chino, para apropiarse de casas populares para demolerlas y construir edificios acordes a la modernidad imperante.
A nivel familiar, el pago del dote por una prometida, los matrimonios arreglados y la dificultad de encontrar pareja en una sociedad desbalanceada en género por la intervención gubernamental que prohibió tener más de un hijo por familias (preferían a los varones para perpetuar el apellido). En su opera prima, Li Chow nos entrega trece cuentos que, además de entretener, nos invitan a reflexionar sobre los lineamiento sociales que condicionan nuestra vida.
October 15, 2020
Cuốn sách đầu tiên về Phật giáo. Tứ diệu đế là nền tảng của các giáo lý Phật giáo (Theo lời tác giả). Sách song ngữ, dễ đọc ngay cả cho người ngoại đạo, các khái niệm qua đó cũng thực sự sáng tỏ hơn. Như Quy y (Refuge), Tam bảo (Three Jewels), duyên khởi (Dependent Origination), vô minh (Ignorance), nghiệp (Karma), tính không (Emptiness)... Không thần thánh, rất khoa học và dễ chấp nhận ngay cả một kẻ vô thần như mình. Lời của tác giả khiêm nhường, đầy kính trọng. Cuốn sách trình bày logic về sự khổ, nguyên nhân cái khổ, diệt khổ và thực hành con đường diệt khổ, hướng tới hạnh phúc.
Quan điểm cá nhân. Đời người thât ngắn ngủi, ta dành cả cho tu thân, kiềm chế ham thích, sống trong tập quy tắc; cách đó liệu có là hay. Dẫu biết, còn ham thích tức còn vô minh, còn vô minh tức còn khổ. Nhưng vẫn ủng hộ cách sống hết mình ở hiện tại, giúp mình, giúp người, giúp đời hay chí ít không làm điều gì sai trái và gây hại cho người.
Tôn trong tư tưởng về Từ bị (compassion) và chắc chắn sẽ cố gắng sống với compassion. Totally agree!!!
Quan điểm cá nhân. Đời người thât ngắn ngủi, ta dành cả cho tu thân, kiềm chế ham thích, sống trong tập quy tắc; cách đó liệu có là hay. Dẫu biết, còn ham thích tức còn vô minh, còn vô minh tức còn khổ. Nhưng vẫn ủng hộ cách sống hết mình ở hiện tại, giúp mình, giúp người, giúp đời hay chí ít không làm điều gì sai trái và gây hại cho người.
Tôn trong tư tưởng về Từ bị (compassion) và chắc chắn sẽ cố gắng sống với compassion. Totally agree!!!
May 27, 2023
El libro nos da una visión clara y profunda sobre la naturaleza del sufrimiento humano y cómo superarlo; nos invita a reflexionar sobre la verdadera naturaleza de la realidad y nos detalla un camino práctico hacia la liberación y la felicidad duradera. Las cuatro nobles verdades:
1ra. La existencia del sufrimiento
2da. El origen del sufrimiento es el deseo y el apego.
3ra. La extinción del sufrimiento.
4ta. El camino octuple (que es una guía detallada para vivir una vida plena y libre del sufrimiento).
Si bien es cierto que hay mucho de verdad en su teoría/práctica , no se si es por mi fanatismo hacia la justicia y que las personas reciban lo que se merecen lo que hace que no esté muy de acuerdo con ser tan pacifista. Entiendo que en la actualidad ya hay mucho fruto podrido para querer simplemente ignorar el daño o esperar que con amor y diálogo todo mejorará. Hay casos y HAY CASOS.
1ra. La existencia del sufrimiento
2da. El origen del sufrimiento es el deseo y el apego.
3ra. La extinción del sufrimiento.
4ta. El camino octuple (que es una guía detallada para vivir una vida plena y libre del sufrimiento).
Si bien es cierto que hay mucho de verdad en su teoría/práctica , no se si es por mi fanatismo hacia la justicia y que las personas reciban lo que se merecen lo que hace que no esté muy de acuerdo con ser tan pacifista. Entiendo que en la actualidad ya hay mucho fruto podrido para querer simplemente ignorar el daño o esperar que con amor y diálogo todo mejorará. Hay casos y HAY CASOS.
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September 29, 2024
This book is almost like a pocket book based on the fundamentals of Buddhist teaching by his holiness, Dalai Lama XIV. He talks about the four noble truths. The first is the truth of suffering: the condition and the consciousness. The second is truth of origin of suffering, which is Karma. The third is the truth of cessation which talks about the Moksha, deliberation and process around it and the fourth is the truth of path, which is finding a path to your own Moksha and liberation.
I think it is not about what book you read but at what time you read that makes an impact and also you tend to pick up a book that attracts you at a certain time and phase. If you feel you are at that stage of life where you are spiritually evolved and will enjoy reading this then this book is definitely more than worth it. It is concise, it is insightful and enlightening. I enjoyed it.
I think it is not about what book you read but at what time you read that makes an impact and also you tend to pick up a book that attracts you at a certain time and phase. If you feel you are at that stage of life where you are spiritually evolved and will enjoy reading this then this book is definitely more than worth it. It is concise, it is insightful and enlightening. I enjoyed it.
January 11, 2026
A helpful introduction to the Four Noble Truths (suffering, origin of suffering, cessation, and the path).
Much of this was over my head and further readings will hopefully help.
I was pleased to see many similarities with yogic philosophy which is easy for me to relate to.
I love the talk at the back of the book, “Compassion, the Basis for Human Kindness” given at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in July 1996.
“-Genuine compassion is based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness just like yourself, and therefore your enemy is a human being with the same wish for happiness as you, and the same right to happiness as you. A sense of concern developed on this basis is what we call compassion, it extends to everyone, irrespective of whether the person’s attitude you is hostile or friendly.”
Much of this was over my head and further readings will hopefully help.
I was pleased to see many similarities with yogic philosophy which is easy for me to relate to.
I love the talk at the back of the book, “Compassion, the Basis for Human Kindness” given at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in July 1996.
“-Genuine compassion is based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness just like yourself, and therefore your enemy is a human being with the same wish for happiness as you, and the same right to happiness as you. A sense of concern developed on this basis is what we call compassion, it extends to everyone, irrespective of whether the person’s attitude you is hostile or friendly.”
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September 18, 2022Our modern conception of love simply equates it with positive emotion and passion. This is a very self-absorbed idea of love, where the emphasis is on oneself. And we can actually make relationship problems worse by interpreting the emotional turmoil that love causes as a sign that there’s something wrong.
But love is more than a feeling; it’s a way of being. And true love is facing the emotional turmoil of life’s journey – all the discomfort, confusion, and pain – hand-in-hand with a fellow traveler. It’s dynamic, scary, and profound. Once we accept it for what it is, we might just be able to enjoy the adventure a little more.
But love is more than a feeling; it’s a way of being. And true love is facing the emotional turmoil of life’s journey – all the discomfort, confusion, and pain – hand-in-hand with a fellow traveler. It’s dynamic, scary, and profound. Once we accept it for what it is, we might just be able to enjoy the adventure a little more.
July 24, 2021
Hay mensajes muy profundos durante todo el libro que logran generar un gran impacto y reflexión.
A mi criterio, este pequeño libro es para los lectores más avanzados, quienes previamente tienen conocimiento acerca de los términos budistas y las distintas escuelas del budismo.
Hay muchos pasajes filosóficos que pueden ser difíciles de comprender para quienes recién ingresan al mundo de los libros budistas. De hecho, si bien es un pequeño libro, explica muy bien Las Cuatro Nobles Verdades en cada capítulo.
A mi criterio, este pequeño libro es para los lectores más avanzados, quienes previamente tienen conocimiento acerca de los términos budistas y las distintas escuelas del budismo.
Hay muchos pasajes filosóficos que pueden ser difíciles de comprender para quienes recién ingresan al mundo de los libros budistas. De hecho, si bien es un pequeño libro, explica muy bien Las Cuatro Nobles Verdades en cada capítulo.
October 1, 2022
Mình cho cuốn này 4 sao, không phải vì nội dung của cuốn sách này. Vì đối với mình tứ diệu đế là điều mà mình luôn tin rằng nó là cách sẽ giúp con ng ( hay là mình thôi) thoát khỏi khổ đau.
Nhưng mình vẫn chưa hiểu lắm về tứ diệu đế sau khi đọc cuốn sách này. Có thể do bản thân mình cũn g mới bước vào con đường tu tập nên chưa hiểu được hết, khi nào có thời gian mình sẽ xem thêm bài giảng về tứ diệu đế của thầy Thích Nhất Hạnh và đọc lại cuốn sách này.
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Nhưng mình vẫn chưa hiểu lắm về tứ diệu đế sau khi đọc cuốn sách này. Có thể do bản thân mình cũn g mới bước vào con đường tu tập nên chưa hiểu được hết, khi nào có thời gian mình sẽ xem thêm bài giảng về tứ diệu đế của thầy Thích Nhất Hạnh và đọc lại cuốn sách này.
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October 17, 2024
Tứ diệu đế là cốt tủy của giáo lý Phật giáo, là pháp duy nhất mà Đức Phật khẳng định ngài trình bày dứt khoát. Bởi pháp ấy thuộc về đích giải thoát, thuộc về Pháp, thuộc căn bản phạm hạnh, đưa đến yểm ly, đến ly tham, đến tịch diệt, đến tịch tịnh, đến thắng trí, đến giác ngộ, đến Niết-bàn.
Dưới nhãn quan của Phật giáo Tây Tạng, cách giải thích của Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma dễ hình dung hơn, so với cách giải thích siêu hình trong Phật giáo Đại thừa.
Dưới nhãn quan của Phật giáo Tây Tạng, cách giải thích của Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma dễ hình dung hơn, so với cách giải thích siêu hình trong Phật giáo Đại thừa.
August 10, 2017
Mind Opening Guidance
As I first began reading, :-/ came across very intellectually and I considered it possibly beyond my mental scope. I persisted and as the reading progressed I became more aware of how well it all tied in together. :/ authored an excellent book on guidance and instruction.
As I first began reading, :-/ came across very intellectually and I considered it possibly beyond my mental scope. I persisted and as the reading progressed I became more aware of how well it all tied in together. :/ authored an excellent book on guidance and instruction.
February 2, 2021
Una revisión de la filosofía budista, sus bases y los diferentes planteamientos de sus escuelas con algunas Respuestas que da el Dalai Lama a cuestionamientos comunes de la vida y el Dharma. Lo recomiendo como una lectura básica para quien quiere adentrarse en la historia, base y conceptos de la filosofía budista
April 14, 2022
This physically small book that will fit in your pocket is dense with teachings. It is a book you will want to own, highlight, and read more than once. This is the second time I have read it. It is not the last time I will read it. Each paragraph could be a chapter of knowledge. It has a supplemental chapter at the end about compassion and that is also a powerful lesson.
August 28, 2024
A book on The Four Noble Truths which really ends up being more of a book on the concept of Emptiness.
This was a good read, and I particularly liked the Appendix (a separate talk/essay on compassion).
It is one of his more overtly "Buddhist" books and gets into concepts a little deeper than some of his writing.
This was a good read, and I particularly liked the Appendix (a separate talk/essay on compassion).
It is one of his more overtly "Buddhist" books and gets into concepts a little deeper than some of his writing.
July 30, 2021
I'd definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of Buddhism. This book provides the Dalai Lama's insight on the Four Noble Truths along with other points of wisdom and like mostly all his works it is most definitely worth reading and absorbing.
August 9, 2018
"Nos hallemos o no en una iglesia o en una catedral, la doctrina de nuestra propia religión ha de estar en nuestro corazón."
January 20, 2019
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Loved this. My soul feels like i have taken a bath.
Loved this. My soul feels like i have taken a bath.
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