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Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind. Boston: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-893-9. Houshmand, Zara, Robert B. Livingston & B. Alan Wallace (eds.) (1999). Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-127-8.
The concept of the book as taught by the Dalai Lama is that human beings each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to attaining that goal is self-knowledge. He teaches how to avoid the common negative notions of self and perspective on life and how to see the world from a more loving, human viewpoint. [1]
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.
The Mind & Life Institute is a US-registered, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1991 to establish the field of contemplative sciences.Based in Charlottesville, Va., the institute “brings science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world."
An Open Heart is a book written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and Nicholas Vreeland published by Little, Brown and Company, in 2002 ISBN 0-316-93093-8 The book explains the fundamentals of Buddhism. [1] [2] [3]
The first considers universal questions; in the second, the Dalai Lama – as a Buddhist monk – expressed his hopes for the spiritual transformation of the world through the transformation of each person's mind, and the third provides a history of the Dalai Lama, spiritual master of the Tibetan people, and 14th Dalai Lama's life in exile.
The 14th Dalai Lama subscribes to this interpretation. [7] The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are: form (or material image, impression) sensations (or feelings, received from form) perceptions (samjna, sañña) mental activity or formations or influences of a previous life
He is an expert in the science of human happiness, [2] and co-wrote The Art of Happiness with the 14th Dalai Lama. [3] [1] Cutler has been interviewed by Time and O, The Oprah Magazine, as well as hundreds of radio and television programs. He has also spoken to audiences and offered courses/workshops to aid in happiness in the United States and ...