A wonderfully refreshing book in which a religious person actually acknowledges that not everyone is or ever will be part of his religion. He's concerned about making things better, not about correcting your theology or how you're using your ladyparts. He just really does care and want to help pe...
This was way too much fun - in a nasty way! Here goes:Because of this book I now know about hungry ghosts, gods and demi-gods, HELL-beings??? and lama's. And here I was thinking that Buddhists are intellectual philosopher's that aren't really religious. (just kidding!) And yet they claim LOVE has...
Two of my heroes, the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, hit it off and decide to have a conversation that they turn into a book. All respect to these two extraordinary gentleman, but the book is not a success. The problem lies in the gulf between Ekman the scientist concerned about observable phenomen...
Ekman does most of the talking in this conversation between him and the Dalai Lama. Have some compassion & overlook Ekman's neediness, & many fascinating aspects of emotion/religion/meaning are explored."EKMAN: I want to raise the technical question of why it is that sitting every day and focusin...
5 stars for intent, 3 stars for writing (which I think is partially due to the fact that he's working through a translator) so it settles out at a 4, but probably closer to 3.5. Much of it is as much about the Dalai Lama's own experiences meeting with world religious leaders as it is about ways t...
Difficult book to rate... Maybe it's because of the translation or the writer who quoted the Dalai Lama but this book is sometimes confusing, other times boring to read (I've been reading about a table for several pages)... and I was glad I've finished it. If you read this book you learn fragment...
هذا المهاتما المجهول أصله ونسبه غير التيبت من كونها تنظيم عسكري الى جنة بوذية، تنسب له العديد من الخرافات التي تذكر كمعجزات مثل تعليمه بعض اتباعه الطيران؟ماعلينا، النقطة هنا أنه بعد أن وصل مكاناً علياً عند نفسه بقي عليه هزيمة الموت ليكمل كل ما يريده، حيث قام بكتابة هذه المخطوطة التي هي كتيب تعليم...
Dalai Lama believes in fundamental goodness in all human beings, in the value of compassion and kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.Excessive desire leads to greed, which leads to frustration, ...