Start Where You Are- A Guide to Compassionate Living

Start Where You Are

A Guide to Compassionate Living

Start Where You Are

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preface

This book is about awakening the heart. If you have ever wondered how to awaken your genuine compassionate heart, this book will serve as a guide.

In our era, when so many people are seeking help to relate to their own feelings of woundedness and at the same time wanting to help relieve the suffering they see around them, the ancient teachings presented here are especially encouraging and to the point. When we find that we are closing down to ourselves and to others, here is instruction on how to open. When we find that we are holding back, here is instruction on how to give.

That which is unwanted and rejected in ourselves and in others can be seen and felt with honesty and compassion.

This is teaching on how to be there for others without withdrawing.

I first encountered these teachings in The Great Path of Awakening by the nineteenth-century Tibetan teacher Jamgön Kongtrül the Great. Called the lojong teachings, they include a very supportive meditation practice called tonglen and the practice of working with the seven points of mind training, which comes from an old Tibetan text called The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind, by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. (See appendix.)

Lojong means “mind training.” The lojong teachings are organized around seven points that contain fifty-nine pithy slogans that remind us how to awaken our hearts.* Working with the slogans constitutes the heart of this book. These teachings belong to the mahayana school of Buddhism, which emphasizes compassionate communication and compassionate relationship with others. They also emphasize that we are not as solid as we think. In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

They help us see that the sense of a separate, isolated self and a separate, isolated other is a painful misunderstanding that we could see through and let go…DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK TO READ IT.

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