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Revelations of Mind
With the book Revelations of Mind we begin an inquiry into the mystery of mind and how its operations affect our well-being. When we know more about how mind works, we can understand what runs our life.
The opportunity to learn from experience is among the most precious benefits life offers. But our experience is more than the thoughts, emotions and events that stand out in memory; it encompasses the most subtle interactions of senses, brains, mind and consciousness. In Revelations of Mind the author helps us explore the human mind from the perspective of inner experience.
Mind is much more complex than we can imagine, and the mental patterns and structures that shape our lives and our choices are so basic we may not even notice them. There are patterns of mind. There are patterns of language. There are patterns of concerns and emotions. Are we ready to ask how these patterns get set up and how they operate?
In releasing it for publication, the author has said, "Our mind is the creator of all we experience, yet we suffer for we do not understand the creator or the creation.But if we can closely contact the processes by which mind generates experience, we can give ease to our mind and appreciate the true nature of our embodiment. We can make our mind our best friend and our most reliable companion."
The opportunity to learn from experience is among the most precious benefits life offers. But our experience is more than the thoughts, emotions and events that stand out in memory; it encompasses the most subtle interactions of senses, brains, mind and consciousness. In Revelations of Mind the author helps us explore the human mind from the perspective of inner experience.
Mind is much more complex than we can imagine, and the mental patterns and structures that shape our lives and our choices are so basic we may not even notice them. There are patterns of mind. There are patterns of language. There are patterns of concerns and emotions. Are we ready to ask how these patterns get set up and how they operate?
In releasing it for publication, the author has said, "Our mind is the creator of all we experience, yet we suffer for we do not understand the creator or the creation.But if we can closely contact the processes by which mind generates experience, we can give ease to our mind and appreciate the true nature of our embodiment. We can make our mind our best friend and our most reliable companion."
- GenresBuddhismPhilosophy
420 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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Tarthang Tulku
165 books78 followersTarthang Tulku Rinpoche (དར་ཐན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ dar-than sprul-sku rin-po-che) is a Tibetan teacher ("lama") in the Nyingma ("old translation") tradition. Having received a complete Buddhist education in pre-diaspora Tibet, he taught philosophy at Sanskrit University in India from 1962 to 1968, and emigrated to America in 1969, where he settled in Berkeley, CA. He is often credited as having introduced the Tibetan medicine practice of Kum Nye (སྐུ་མཉེ sku mnye་, "subtle-body massage") to the West.
In 1963, he founded Dharma Publishing in Varanasi, India, moving it to California in 1971. The main purpose of the publishing house is to preserve and distribute Tibetan Buddhist teachings and to bring these teachings to the West.
Neither Rinpoche nor Tulku are surnames; the former is an honorific applied to respected teachers meaning "Precious One," while the latter is a title given to those who have be recognized an the reincarnation of a previous lama.
In 1963, he founded Dharma Publishing in Varanasi, India, moving it to California in 1971. The main purpose of the publishing house is to preserve and distribute Tibetan Buddhist teachings and to bring these teachings to the West.
Neither Rinpoche nor Tulku are surnames; the former is an honorific applied to respected teachers meaning "Precious One," while the latter is a title given to those who have be recognized an the reincarnation of a previous lama.
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June 30, 2014
Only had the opportunity to scan the last half or so of this book, but it is an excellent and refreshing perspective on consciousness! Hope to re-read it some time.
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