This challenging new work examines practical techniques for training the attention. It will be of interest to seasoned contemplatives, to general readers concerned with meditation, to philosophers of mind, and to cognitive scientists. The book includes a translation, with commentary, of Tsongkhapa's classic fifteenth-century discussion of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity. Such enhancement a...
Neurowissenschaft und Buddhismus sind mittlerweile in einen fruchtbaren Dialog über das Bewusstsein und die Natur des Geistes getreten. Zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten auf buddhistischer Seite gehört seit Jahren B. Alan Wallace. In diesem Buch zeigt er, wie wir durch ein 12 Stufen umfassendes Aufmerksamkeits-Training, das ursprünglich in einem buddhistischen Kontext entwickelt wurde, die befreienden und heilenden Dimensionen unseres Geistes ...
Tibetan Buddhist practice isn't just sitting in silent meditation, it's developing fresh attitudes that align our minds with reality. Includes three new translations of Atisha's source material.In this book, B. Alan Wallace explains a fundamental type of mental training that is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure wellsprings of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes, and frustrati...
In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into a space of vast freedom. Here, Wallace introduces us to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, one of the most cherished works of the Nyingma school from ...
Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text. The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very basic instructions, which are then gradually built upon as one gains increasing familiarity with the practice.
Discover your personal path to bliss"This book will give anyone interested in the spectrum of core meditative practices stemming from the Buddhist tradition but in essence universal the deepest of perspectives on what is possible for us as human beings as well as excellent guidance in the essential, time-tested attitudes and practices for actualizing our innate capacity for wisdom, compassion, and well-being, right here and right now."-Jon Kab...
Bestselling author B. Alan Wallace delivers the long-awaited followup to his Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence (2011).Fathoming the Mind continues the commentary to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence that appeared in Stilling the Mind, daringly contextualizing Buddhist teachings on the Great Perfection as a revolutionary challenge to many contemporary beliefs. This companion volume stems from an oral commentar...
Die Zahl der weitsichtigen Denker und Forscher, die über den Rand ihrer Fachdisziplin hinaus denken, nimmt unaufhaltsam zu. Ihnen allen ist die Ãoeberzeugung gemeinsam, dass wir in einer "Übergangszeit" leben, in der es um eine Erweiterung, eine Transzendierung des bisher bekannten Weltbildes geht.Allan B. Wallace, ein persönlicher Schüler des Dalai Lama, zeichnet in seinem faszinierenden Buch konkrete Wege auf, wie diese "Bewusstseinserweiter...
Study the Great Perfection with the celebrated Lerab Lingpa, who imparted teachings to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, and discover the common ground of Tibetan Buddhism's many schools in essays by his disciples.Lerab Lingpa (1856-1926), also known as Tertön Sogyal, was one of the great Dzogchen (Great Perfection) masters of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and a close confidant and guru of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. This volume contain...
In exploring the nature of consciousness, this groundbreaking study will help to bridge the chasm between religious belief and scientific knowledge. It is essential reading for philosophers and historians of science, scholars of religion, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and religion.
Calma meditativa, le quattro applicazioni dell'attenzione, i quattro incommensurabili, lo yoga del sogno, lo Dzogchen: sono queste le forme meditative essenziali per conseguire la felicità autentica. La nostra civiltà, sovraccarica di stimoli, ci induce a cercare la felicità all'esterno, in vani tentativi di piegare la natura al nostro volere, di acquisire ricchezze e fama, o di conquistare qualcosa o qualcuno, con l'unico risultato di diventa...
