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(More customer reviews)This is a book on how to destroy mental and physical suffering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses Mahayana Thought Transformations. These are statements or views that we can use in our everyday life to massively destroy suffering and create happiness. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is believed that all our suffering is caused by selfishness or what Lama Zopa Rinpoche calls, "self-cherishing." We all have comitted selfish acts in the past. We must experience the results in the future. But we can experience all these problems in such a way as to put a stop on all suffering sometime in the future. Simply because the impetus of suffering has lost it's ability to cause a chain reaction. Lama Rinpoche gives plenty of thought transformations. And a comprehensive list is given in the back. Some of these ideas may strike the reader as a bit strange. Using suffering to destroy suffering. As Harry Truman said, "The buck stops here!" In this book, "The suffering stops here. I blame all this suffering on selfish actions and thoughts which I have performed in the past. I will not blame anybody. And I am suffering for all beings." Having done so, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how this stops suffering. Usually, when we experience a problem, we blame other people, places, or things. This blaming increases our self-cherishing stance. "If only my tire didn't go flat..." and so forth. We can learn to like suffering so that we can put a stop at it's nucleus. Which is that suffering leads to more selfish actions. Lama Zopa Rinpoche even goes as far as stating that we can enjoy suffering like eating ice cream or listening to classical music! You can actually experience problems, which are the result of selfish actions, and state, "Well! I got rid of that selfish action. My tire went flat!" This may sound strange. The author is not asking you to stick your hand into a fire. He is just asking you to give Mahayana Thought Transformations a try. Or as Jesus said, "Ye Reap What Ye Sow." The object of this book is to sow no more. You have been in pain long enough. So buy this book and give it a good test run. I think that you will be happy with the results.
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"Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind," says Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Commenting on a 13th-century Tibetan text of instructions and practical advice for everyday spiritual living, Lama Zopa Rinpoche literally teaches us how to be happy when we are not, by bringing about the changes in attitude that permit us to live a happy and relaxed life in which external circumstances no longer rule us. In Transforming Problems Into Happiness, Lama Zopa Rinpoche brings his own special flavor or contemporary relevance to a timeless teaching on Buddhist psychology. This volume will be valuable to everyone, whatever their religious or spiritual background.
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