Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Traveling Buddhist Monk
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Book Overview
A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.
These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.
These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0553378554
ISBN13:9780553378559
Release Date:December 1997
Publisher:Bantam
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.48 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
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Wonderful Work
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The writer is a monk from Sri Lanka, Bhante Y. Wimala, also the originator of the "Center for Conscious Evolution" in Cambridge. Bhante looks at the entire world as his teacher, and is totally content being in his present state of constant learning. That's the driving gusto of this work, that everything is cinstantly teaching us, incessantly. We can learn not only from holy texts or nature herself, but every single moment; mind you "moment" is eternal and infinite. Here we are asked to re-contact the child within and reclaim our original inquisitiveness. To acknowledge and appreciate the beauty of all things, not only the sunshine, but also the days of gray. As the old snippet goes, " Rain makes the flowers grow in the field, and also the thorns in the marshes." Bhante also offers fascinating meditative suggestions, and ultimately calls us all to become world participants. From the book, "The lotus has taken a long path through the mud and the murky water, seeking the sunrise to open its heart to the world and express its essence." Enjoy!
Excellent book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I bought this book to understand Buddhism and found instead a spiritual journey filled with discovery and recognition. I highly recomend this book to anyone seeking inner happiness and peace.
Superb - This book really is compelling reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I am not a religious person at all and you don't need to be to appreciate this book. It has been written in a very graceful way that leads you through the book to experience emotions you never knew you could. This book is outstanding and should be read by everyone, the enlightenment the author shares is intense and his adaptation of age old principles into human life today is a gift. Although it would usually be a great pleasure for me to meet an author I do not need to in this case, he has shared so much in the book I feel I know him well. Reading this has been like sitting discussing the ways of the world with a close friend and a really nice experience for me.
Read this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
I have known Bhante Wimala for 10 years and he is one of the few spiritual teachers who lives what he teaches. A kind and gentle soul who cares deeply about the whole human race - his extended family. This book is simple yet profoundly deep and is sure to bring a few smiles to your face.
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