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What is the "Buddhist heart" and how do we awaken it in ourselves? Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddhist Heart, defines the Buddhist heart as our own inner goodness - our most tender, compassionate, and caring self, our innate Buddha-nature. The Buddhist heart , called Bodhicitta by Tibetans, beats within each and every one of us and is awakened through meaningful connections - connections to our families, romantic partners, our colleagues and work, our neighbors, society, and extending out to all living creatures, including ourselves. This book tells us how we can use relationships as a vehicle for a sacred life.
Everyone needs to feel connected, to love and feel loved, to reach out to others and communicate in order to overcome alienation, loneliness, and a feeling of being disconnected. In Awakening the Buddhist Heart Surya Das shows you how to reach inward and outward. By developing spiritual intelligence, a sense of compassion that helps us be more sensitive, more aware of our own feelings of those around us, we become more intuitive; we relate better and love better. Cultivating spiritual intelligence and learning how to connect will improve our capacity for intimacy, making us better mates, friends, parents, and coworkers; it helps all of us to become more giving and brings us fulfillment, meaning, and love.
Awakening the Buddhist Heart, Lama Surya Das, Broadway Books, 256 pages, $15.00
Surya Das is the highest trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. A poet, translator, and full time spiritual teacher, he is the author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within and Awakening to the Sacred. Surya Das lectures and leads meditation retreats worldwide. Awakening the Buddhist Heart will be his fourth book, and his third published by Broadway Books. Surya Das lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts
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