The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Inner Peace
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Литагент HarperCollins USD. The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Inner Peace
Little Book of INNER PEACE HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA. With Frédérique Hatier
Table of Contents
NOTE TO THE READER:
Office of Tibet, Paris Representing His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Foreword
CHAPTER ONE THE OCEAN OF WISDOM. On my origins
How I was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama
Bodhisattva of compassion, holder of the white lotus
My mother
Loneliness as a small child
The master cook
On my studies
Losar, the New Year festival
1950: the Chinese invade Tibet
On the road from Lhasa to Peking
The Panchen Lama
Meeting President Mao
Khrushchev, Bulganin, and Pandit Nehru
Marxism
Mao’s advice
Back in Lhasa
The Tibetan resistance
The difficulty of being both spiritual and temporal leader in times of war
Journey to India
Lhasa reaches breaking point
Doctor of Buddhist philosophy
A thousand-year civilization exhibits its glory for the last time
Invitation to a theatrical show
The Lhasa revolt
Exile
CHAPTER TWO TIBET AND LIFE IN EXILE. Truth is more powerful than force of arms
Population transfers in Tibet
Patience and tolerance, yes; but Chinese domination is unacceptable
Compassion for the Chinese
We ask only for autonomy
My Five-point Peace Plan
The Chinese turn a deaf ear to Tibetans, but are sensitive to international pressure
China and Buddhism
The way of peace
A typical day in my life
My monastic robes
My religion is kindness
We have to know how to remain strong in the face of adversity
What makes Tibet special?
The Tibetan character
The Nobel Peace Prize: a significant asset
Returning to Tibet
The positive side of living in exile
The last Dalai Lama?
CHAPTER THREE THE WORLD TODAY. Our mundane concerns
History reflects our understanding
Short-term politics
War is massacre
Inner transformation is the basis for peace
War and peace
A global family
On the gap between rich and poor
The Western outlook is rigid
On national isolationism
Responsibility for our environment
Overpopulation, poverty, and birth control
The urgency of educating people in the Third World
The suffering of animals
The only true guardian of peace
Western civilization
The Western technological mirage
A new social model
The death penalty
Karma is our judge
The power and responsibility of the media
An exalting task for all mankind
CHAPTER FOUR FAITH, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION. Religion
The point of religious diversity
Belief, experience, and reason in Buddhism
Who was the Buddha?
I am not trying to convert anyone
The Buddha’s message for these troubled times
The Buddha and Christ
Our goal
What it means to be a Buddhist
The Buddhist teaching
The need for morality
The 10 negative actions and their four antidotes
Why meditate?
What can we learn from Buddhism?
The path to wisdom
An inner struggle
We are like a vase designed to hold knowledge
Purely theoretical knowledge is a dangerous thing
Primacy of the teaching over the teacher
The spiritual teacher
The teacher-student relationship
The bodhisattva
The practice of a bodhisattva
The sweet taste of bodhicitta
The powers of a buddha
The buddha seed
CHAPTER FIVE THE INNER JOURNEY. Peace of mind
The questions we should ask ourselves
We all have the same potential
Love and compassion are fundamental
By nature we are social animals
Love based on attachment
Happiness and anxiety
Like ripples on a lake
Enemies are precious
Anyone who feels overwhelmed has no power over reality
Karma
The four powers of regret, purification, resolve, and meditatio
Responsibility for ourselves
Aggression
Cruelty
Kindness
Slander
Anger
Complacency
The human mind
Ourselves and others
Using visualization to increase compassion
Three ways of relating
A prison unto ourselves
The imaginary “I”
Being wisely selfish
The positive and negative aspects of ego
Our happiness comes from others
Education
Confidence breeds success
Defeat and victory
True friends and false
Sexual desire
Limiting one’s desires
Giving
Effort and diligence
Other people
Anger and judgment
Treating other people as you would a treasure
Joy
Marriage
The mind is primordially pure
Pride
Drop the past
Purity
Respect
Taking the reins is the key to happiness
The virtues of patience
The remedy for fear
The middle way
Telling the truth
Tolerance
Being mindful
Dedicating our work to helping others
Engaging in life full time
Towards lay spirituality and secular ethics
CHAPTER SIX LIFE, DEATH, AND REBIRTH. Samsara
Impermanence
The principle of past and future lives
Renunciation
Our instinctive belief in an independent self
Mistaking a rope for a snake
Everything is interdependent
The nature of the mind
Who created the universe?
Space and the big bang
The origin of the universe
Emptiness is like the idea of zero
The direct approach
Science and moral consciousness
Death and clear light
The three levels of consciousness
The Buddhist theory of cause and effect
The key to good fortune and to misfortune
The effects of individuals on the environment
Serenity comes through Buddhist practice
The Four Noble Truths
GLOSSARY. AGGREGATES
AHISMA
AVALOKITESHVARA
BARDO
BODHICITTA
BODHISATTVA
BUDDHA
DHARMA
EMPTINESS
GAUTAMA
GURU
HINAYANA
KANGYUR
KARMA
KATA
LAMA
MAHAYANA
MANTRA
MARA
NIRVANA
SAMSARA
SANGHA
SENTIENT BEINGS
SHAKYAMUNI
SHANTIDEVA
SIX PERFECTIONS
SUTRA
TATHAGATAGARBHA
THE THREE JEWELS
Selected works by the Dalai Lama
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Translated from the French by Dominique Side
Title Page
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During my first visit to China, we were welcomed by the Prime Minister and the Vice President of the Popular Republic, Chou En-lai and Chu Te. Both were very cordial. Two or three days later, if my memory serves me right, I met President Mao for the first time. It was a public meeting. Our hosts were extremely strict about etiquette. Their anxiety was contagious, and soon we were all panicking. However, President Mao himself seemed relaxed and completely at ease. His appearance gave no sign of his intellectual power. And yet, when we shook hands, I sensed that he had tremendous magnetism. Not only was he cordial, but remarkably spontaneous.
We met at least a dozen times. I found him very impressive. Just physically, he was extraordinary. He had a dark complexion, but at the same time his skin was shiny. His hands were equally shiny and I immediately noticed how beautiful they were – perfect fingers, and an exquisite thumb. He was slow in his movements, and slower still in speech. He was sparing of words, and spoke in short sentences, each full of meaning and usually clear and precise. The way he was dressed contrasted with his behavior: all his clothes appeared threadbare. His dress differed from that of the common Chinese people only by being of a slightly different shade of blue. His whole bearing breathed a natural authority, and his very presence imposed respect.
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