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About How
Things Exist:
"Sometimes you might think, 'What's
the use of teachings on emptiness? How does this philosophy help me
when I have problems in everyday life?' However, if you can think
[about emptiness], it's the most powerful meditation to shatter the
hallucinations. It's like an atomic bomb. Problems happen in your daily
life because you believe the hallucinations to be real. The most
powerful, immediate way to stop problems is to remember emptiness. You
should especially remember emptiness when you are in situations where
there's a danger of giving rise to strong anger or uncontrolled desire
and creating heavy negative karma and causing great harm to others."
In this small book Lama Zopa Rinpoche
covers an incredible amount of ground. He starts by emphasizing the
importance of compassion and universal responsibility and how to make
life meaningful, then gives a brief explanation of the nature of the
enlightened mind and how we can attain it, and finally offers an
amazing and extensive explanation of emptiness, the ultimate nature of
reality, analyzing the way various phenomena exist and teaching how to
meditate on emptiness. Within these teachings, Rinpoche also touches on
several of the other main points of the path to enlightenment, such as
bodhicitta, the three scopes and impermanence. But, in the end, this
wonderfully practical book is a manifestation of Rinpoche's peerless
wisdom realizing emptiness and a testament to the personal experience
of this rare and precious teacher.
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»Chapter 1: Universal
Responsibility
»Chapter 2: How Things Exist
»Chapter 3: Lam-rim and
Meditation on Emptiness
»Chapter 4: Different Ways
of Looking at Things
»Chapter 5: Merely Labeled
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