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Conosci te stesso
Ognuno di noi possiede gli strumenti per ottenere la felicità e vivere un'esistenza significativa, e il modo per conquistare tale obiettivo è la conoscenza di sé: ignorare la nostra vera natura equivale a restare imprigionati in una concezione fuorviante ed esagerata del nostro io, degli altri, degli eventi esterni e delle cose materiali. In "Conosci te stesso" il Dalai Lama illustra come allontanarsi da una percezione distorta del corpo e della mente e liberarsi così dall'errore e dalla sofferenza, per giungere a considerare il mondo in una prospettiva più realistica e fondata sull'amore. Attingendo al pensiero buddhista e proponendo una serie di esercizi graduali, ci prende per mano e ci aiuta a sviluppare la capacità di distinguere fra come appariamo a noi stessi e come siamo davvero e, quindi, ad abbandonare idee e presupposti illusori. Tramite la concentrazione meditativa, impareremo a mettere l'intuizione al servizio dell'amore e l'amore al servizio dell'intuizione, raggiungendo lo stadio supremo dell'illuminazione, tesa alla compassione e al bene altrui.
199 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2010
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Dalai Lama XIV
1,554 books6,197 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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May 1, 2020
Very technical book, not what I was expecting but in the end I understood most of the concept even though it’s application won’t be easy, and the philosophy of it all it’s difficult to maintain, specially when (hopefully not) we will come back to our hectics lives after de quarantine.
So my hope it’s to remember this after that and keep the focus and the reflexiona learned here.
I would have given it 3 stars because of the difficulty level but it the end I dedicated time to understand and reread pages and the deepness of the reflections I got are very valuable for me.
I don’t recommend it to people who want some light reading about Buddhism or want some easy answer about finding yourself because this is not the book for that.
Actually I see myself going back to it in the future in order to refresh its philosophies because they are simple yet difficult to apply to day to day life and situations.
So my hope it’s to remember this after that and keep the focus and the reflexiona learned here.
I would have given it 3 stars because of the difficulty level but it the end I dedicated time to understand and reread pages and the deepness of the reflections I got are very valuable for me.
I don’t recommend it to people who want some light reading about Buddhism or want some easy answer about finding yourself because this is not the book for that.
Actually I see myself going back to it in the future in order to refresh its philosophies because they are simple yet difficult to apply to day to day life and situations.
August 22, 2019
Molto tecnico. Adatto a chi ha già una certa dimestichezza con il buddhismo e la sua filosofia.
September 2, 2024
Un po' scontato e soprattutto ripetitivo nonché simile ad un decalogo
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