The Heart Sutra is one of the most famous texts of Buddhism. Here Shakyamuni Buddha, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and Shariputra together with Prajnaparamita, the Mother of all Buddhas reveal to us the wisdom that views phenomena as they are. Bokar Rinpoche penetrates the essence of this sutra transcending words and images.
"Although this ultimate reality can be apprehended neither from the outside by the means of conceptual representation nor transmitted to another, it can however be experienced from inside. It will rise and appear in the mind."
Bokar Rinpoche discusses anger, and its unique remedies of love, compassion and wisdom.
"Our mind has a serious sickness of aggressiveness and anger. It is necessary to extract it in order to transplant in its place, the mind of awakening."
Khenpo Donyo, offers a teaching about karma, including how it relates to the origin of the world and its interpretation, the idea of individual responsibility, an explanation of individual and collective karma, and the effect of positive and negative karma on our lives.
"Relationships between people are ruled by karmic laws, A karmic link is necessary in order to be attracted toward a person, or for two people to be attracted to each other. If this link is missing, feeling would not be established."
Profound Wisdom of the Heart Sutra and Other Teachings, Bokar Rinpoche & Khenpo Donyo, Clear Point Press, 94 pp, $10.95
Bokar Rinpoche was born to a family of nomads in Western Tibet in 1940. Recognized at four as the reincarnation of the previous Bokar Rinpoche by the Sixteenth Karmapa, he studied at Bokar and Tsurphu Monasteries. He left Tibet for India at twenty and completed two three-year retreats under the guidance of the great Tibetan master, Kalu Rinpoche. Because of his remarkable qualities and deep realization, he succeeded Kalu Rinpoche as head of the Shangpa Kagyu Lineage. He teaches advanced Vajrayana practice at monasteries in Northern India and Buddhist centers throughout the world.
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CONTENTS: Profound Wisdom of The Heart Sutra and Other Teachings
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The Heart Sutra
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9
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Part I
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15
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Part II
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33
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Concerning anger
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47
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Anger
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48
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Mind of awakening
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49
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Understanding others
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50
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Responding to aggressiveness
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51
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Transplanting love
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52
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The six perfections
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52
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Questions and answers
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56
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Karma
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63
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Origin of the world
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63
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Responsibility
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65
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Inescapability
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66
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Individual karma and collective karma
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66
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Limits of the inescapable
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68
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Positive karma--Negative karma
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68
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Act and motivation
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70
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Similarity of relations
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71
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Purification
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72
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Interpretation of the world
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73
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Questions and answers
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76
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Small Glossary
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83
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Index
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93
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