Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 3 - Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Sprache / Language: Englisch / English
Hardcover, 440 pages.

About the book

In this third volume of the series, discover the mind’s infinitely vast potential and buddha nature. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature takes up centrally important premises of Buddhism: the unsatisfactoriness (duhkha) of cyclic existence (samsara), the determination to be free of cyclic existence, and the mind as the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara and the bliss of nirvana. This volume shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities.

Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the purified mind). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the Four Noble Truths, and their sixteen attributes. Then, the Dalai Lama explains afflictions, their arising and antidotes, followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature.

Contents

• The Self, the Four Truths, and Their Sixteen Attributes
• Revolving in Cyclic Existence: The Truth of Duḥkha
• True Origins of Duḥkha
• Afflictions, Their Arising, and Their Antidotes
• Afflictions and Karma, Their Seeds and Latencies
• Karma, the Universe, and Evolution
• Revolving in Cyclic Existence: The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
• Dependent Origination: Cycling in Samsāra
• The Determination to Be Free
• Seeking Genuine Peace
• Freedom from Cyclic Existence
• The Mind and Its Potential
• Buddha Nature
• Going Deeper into Buddha Nature