Jamgon Mipham: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava

White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava


Description

The commentary translated in these pages is unusual and rare. But if the commentary is a rarity, its subject matter the seven-line invocation of Padmasambhava is one of the best-known prayers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best appreciated in relation to a practice called guru-yoga, or "union with the nature of the guru." The purpose of guru-yoga is to purify and deepen the student's relationship with his or her teacher. It is introduced as one of the preliminary practices, and it remains crucial in fact, its importance increases as one progresses through the more advanced levels of the tantric path. The cultivation of devotion to the guru and the blending of one's mind with his or her enlightened mind is, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "the most vital and necessary of all practices and is in itself the surest and fastest way to reach the goal of enlightenment." Regarding the origin of this commentary, Mipham refers in the colophon to an event that triggered the abrupt appearance in his mind of the hidden meaning of the prayer. It is interesting to note that the language Mipham uses suggests that the commentary itself is not an ordinary composition but perhaps a treasure teaching, specifically a "mind-treasure" or "gongter.""

The secret to finding out anything you want to know is amazingly simple: Ask good questions. Most people trip through life asking bad questions of teachers, friends, colleagues, customers, experts and suspects. Even people trained in questioning, such as journalists and lawyers, commonly ask questions that get partial or misleading answers. People in any profession will immediately benefit by developing the skill and art of good questioning. This book will give you the power to identify and practise good questioning techniques, recognise types of questions to avoid, and know the questions required when hearing unconfirmed reports or gossip. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward , and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its major assumptions stand in apparent opposition to cetain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for data with which other theories Sales Closing For Dummies free ebook have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have been regarded as unrelated, and it is supported by the results of experiments designed specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text.


____________________________
Author: Jamgon Mipham
Number of Pages: 144 pages
Published Date: 18 Sep 2015
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Publication Country: Boston, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781611802931
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

rar, download book, mobi, book review, Read online, iPad, ebook pdf, paperback, fb2, Jamgon Mipham kindle, download pdf White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava by Jamgon Mipham pocket,for PC, facebook,download epub, download pdf, for mac, ebook,White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava iPad,zip, free pdf, kindle, pocket, rardownload torrent, iPhone, free ebook, download ebook, iOS, epub download,

Bad Kitty Gets a Bath free ebook