B. Alan Wallace - 2004 - The Seven-Point Mind Training (150p).pdf

B. Alan Wallace - 2004 - The Seven-Point Mind Training (150p).pdf

Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (September 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559392223
ISBN-13: 978-1559392228

In this society with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. The process of simply existing is not necessarily meaningful. And yet, there is an unlimited potential for meaning and value in this human existence. The Seven-Point Mind Training is one eminently practical way of tapping into that meaning.

The central theme of The Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from the constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with others which occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself.

This mind training technique is especially well-suited for an active life. It does not require that we withdraw into seclusion, but that we re-examine all of our relationships — to family, friends, enemies, and strangers — and gradually transform our responses to whatever life throws our way.

"Alan Wallace is one of the great Western Buddhist thinkers of our day."— Howard Cutler, co-author with H.H. the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness at Work

"A book that will enhance and deepen your spiritual life and empower you to make positive changes."--East and West Series

About the author:
B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture in 1970 (at the age of 20) at the University of Göttingen and then continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland, and the United States. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He then taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://sbinstitute.com). He is also Chairman of the Thanypura Mind Centre (http://piamc.com) in Thailand, where he leads meditation retreats. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and Buddhism, including Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity, and Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness.