Parting from the Four Attachments

Parting from the Four Attachments: A Commentary on Jetsyn Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View
The spiritual masters of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism today generously teach a wide variety of special methods for achieving enlightenment according to the systems of the Great Vehicle (Mahayana) and the Vajra Vehicle (Vajrayana). The treasured teachings of both traditions have been passed down for more than 1000 years from teacher to student without any interruption in the lineage. From among the treasure trove of Mahayana instructions of the Sakya school, the brief teaching known as Parting from the Four Attachments (Zhen pa bzhi bral) is traditionally considered to be an invaluable gem that summarizes the entire spiritual path in the form of a short oral instruction. This particular teaching is said to have a divine origin. When he was just twelve years old, the founder of the Sakya tradition, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), received a concise and profound summation of the entire Mahayana teaching directly from the bodhisattva Manjushri. The bodhisattva's words were: "If you are attached to this life, you are not a person of Dharma. If you are attached to cyclic existence, you do not have renunciation. If you are attached to your own purpose, you do not have bodhicitta. If grasping arises, you do not have the view."
Each of Manjushri's four phrases point to an essential aspect of the spiritual path. To achieve enlightenment, a Buddhist practitioner must become free of the four attachments mentioned by the bodhisattva. Sachen Kunga Nyingpo taught these instructions orally to his son, Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147-1216), who first wrote down the teaching and composed an exceptionally elegant and profound explanation of the original lines in the form of a spiritual song expressing his own experience arisen from meditation. Drakpa Gyaltsen's nephew, Sakya Pandita (1182-1251), later wrote a summary of the teaching, and various other masters wrote more extensive and scholastic expositions in the following centuries. In the Sakya tradition, Parting from the Four Attachments is still today the essential teaching of Mind Training (Blo sbyong), especially valued for developing the altruistic motivation of attaining enlightenment in order to be able to truly benefit other living beings.

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Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi, also known as The Holy Canon of Nanhua, is a Taoist classic written by the Warring States period philosopher Zhuangzi and his students. The book is composed of 33 chapters including 7 Inner Chapters, 15 Outer Chapters, and 11 Miscellaneous Chapters.
In this book, Zhuangzi inherited and developed Laozi's viewpoint of "the ways of Tao being conditioned by the self-so. "Taking Tao as the origin of the world, he held that Tao is self-sufficient and eternal whereas the difference between things is relative. To correspond with this world outlook, Zhuangzi advocated an outlook on life of "non-action in face of nature, "which recommended maintaining personal freedom of body and mind, and of attaining a spiritual plane of complete liberty and of harmony between man and nature.
Before being translated into modern Chinese, the original Chinese text of the present edition has been checked and punctuated with reference to Guo Qingfan's A Vatiorum Zhuangzi. The English translation, which is its latest complete edition, has been accomplished with reference to the existing complete as well as selected English translations of the book.

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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures.
In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true Lost Civilization, the people of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the Earth really is alive, while in the far reaches of Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last rainforest nomads struggle to survive.
Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy — a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our time.

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Rainbow Painting

Rainbow Painting - Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche has lived at length in mountain hermitages, spent many years in retreat, and done a considerable amount of meditation training. For this reason, he gives the very quintessence of the sacred teachings spoken by our compassionate Buddha Shakyamuni. He speaks from experience, expressing what he himself has undergone, instructing us in the way we should practice in a complete and unmistaken manner. These teachings, saturated with direct, pithy instruction, are unique.

Saturated with direct, pithy instructions, Rainbow Painting presents the very quintessence of the Buddhist Spiritual approach through the authentic personal experience of one of the greatest living meditation masters.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche expresses what he himself has undergone, instructing us in a complete manner of training. To attain enlightenment we must experience our innate nature. The ultimate object of realization, the natural state of mind, unmistakenly and exactly as it is, need not be sought for elsewhere but is present within ourselves. Stability in this unexcelled state of unity is not achieved by separating what we know from what we do.
This book contains astute instructions that address these key points of spirituality.

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How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World

How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
The surest path to true happiness lies in being intimately concerned with the welfare of others. Or, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama would say, in compassion.

In How to Be Compassionate, His Holiness reveals basic mistakes of attitude that lead us to inner turmoil, and how we can correct them to achieve a better tomorrow. He demonstrates precisely how opening our hearts and minds to other people is the best way to overcome the misguided ideas that are at the root of all our problems. He shows us how compassion can be a continuous wellspring of happiness in our own lives and how our newfound happiness can extend outward from us in ever wider and wider circles.

As we become more compassionate human beings, our friends, family, neighbors, loved ones—and even our enemies—will find themselves less frequently in the thrall of destructive emotions like anger, jealousy, and fear, prompting them to become more warmhearted, kind, and harmonious forces within their own circles. With simple language and startling clarity, His Holiness makes evident as never before that the path to global harmony begins in the hearts of individual women and men. Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama’s experiences as a student, thinker, political leader, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, How to Be Compassionate gives seekers of all faiths the keys to overcoming anger, hatred, and selfishness— the primary obstacles to happiness—and to becoming agents of positive transformation in our communities and the world at large.


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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha:

 Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
“Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master’s actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of “instant dialogue” between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

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The Lama's Chant: Songs Of Awakening

The Lama's Chant: Songs Of Awakening
As it says in the liner notes to this enchanting CD, Buddhism is not just a religion or a philosophy or a way of life, but a mixture of all three, and the serenity Buddhists aspire to radiates from these chants, filling the listener with a sense of calming peacefulness. Buddhist monk Lama Gyurmé offers five traditional chants, subtly accompanied by composer Jean-Philippe Rykiel's droning keyboard arrangements. On "Hope for Enlightenment (A Wish for Awakening)," the chant is a prayer of desire for Awakening, the actualization of all the potential qualities of the human being. "Guru Rinpoche (The Mantra of Padmasambhava)" is a repeated mantra, a Sanskrit formula whose chanting purportedly produces an inner purification in those who recite it. A hypnotic CD that brims with spirituality, this one is highly recommended for practitioners of meditation.

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