The Dalai Lama’s Book of Awakening

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Литагент HarperCollins USD. The Dalai Lama’s Book of Awakening

The DALAI LAMA’S Book of AWAKENING

Table of Contents

Foreword

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM

Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhichitta

Dependent Origination

The Two Truths

ONE INTRODUCING THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

TWO THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING

THE THREE REALMS OF SUFFERING

THREE TYPES OF SUFFERING

IGNORANCE

CONSCIOUSNESS

THREE THE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING

KARMA. Categories of Karmic Action

Karma and the Person

Karma and the Natural World

Karma and the Emotions

FOUR THE TRUTH OF CESSATION

EMPTINESS. Four Interpretations of “No-self” or Emptiness

The Middle Way

The Madhyamaka Schools

Applying our Understanding of Emptiness

LIBERATION

FIVE THE TRUTH OF THE PATH

The Shravakayana Path

The Mahayana Path

The Vajrayana Path

Advice on Following the Buddhist Path

CONCLUSION

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Title Page

Foreword

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In the present context, I think we must make a distinction between the use of “Dharma” as a generic term and its use in the specific framework of the Refuge. Generically, it refers to the scriptural Dharma – the Buddha’s teaching and the spiritual realizations based on the practice of that teaching. In relation to the Refuge it has two aspects: one is the path that leads to the cessation of suffering and afflictive emotions, and the other is cessation itself. It is only by understanding true cessation and the path leading to cessation that we can have some idea of what the state of liberation is.

In the Sutras, Buddha stated several times that whoever perceives the interdependent nature of reality sees the Dharma; and whoever sees the Dharma sees the Buddha. It is my belief that if we approach this statement from the perspective of Nagarjuna’s teachings of the Madhyamaka School, we can arrive at the most comprehensive understanding of its implications. If you were to accuse me of having a bias in favor of Nagarjuna, I would certainly accept that criticism! So following Nagarjuna, we find there are three levels of meaning here.

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