A Truthful Heart Buddhist Practices For Connecting With Others [Paperback]

The Dalai Lama often says Kindness is society. By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. InA Truthful Heart,Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us. Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our livesA Truthful Heartis the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal— even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us will welcome this timely vision for humanity. This is a new edition ofCultivating Compassion. Jeffrey Hopkins is a humble person. His tone throughout the book is gentle subtle and persuasive. The book is really a thoughtful and well-organized exploration of the meaning of compassion.... Hopkins has written an authentic roadmap for the human global village within a Buddhist context that will serve the reader well. Stock this fine work in Buddhism Religion and Philosophy sections. —New Age Retailer

How relevant this is to our current troubled times!…Hopkins is to be congratulated on his simple language and style while retaining a potent message…the book has tremendous value for practitioners at all levels and not just for Buddhists. —The Middle Way

Hopkins offers the reader a series of practices and meditations that move from equanimity to compassion in a gently confrontational way designed not to make his audience feel warm and fuzzy but instead to make them feel genuinely and sincerely connected (as the best Buddhist texts often do). Hopkins admits that he struló