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Genuine Happiness : Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment
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Genuine Happiness : Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Wallace, B. Alan

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  • Title Genuine Happiness : Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment
  • Author Wallace, B. Alan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-03-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5268907-6
  • ISBN 9780471469841 / 047146984X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Library of Congress subjects Meditation - Buddhism, Anapanasmrti
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004027098
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.344

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OVER THE PAST THIRTY-FOUR years that I have studied and practiced Buddhism, I have trained under the guidance of sixty teachers from the East and West.

From the jacket flap

In our search for happiness, we need not look far. True happiness is not found through the conquest of nature or the acquisition of wealth and fame--it is found within by realizing the potential of our own hearts and minds. In Genuine Happiness, Alan Wallace, scholar and longtime Buddhist practitioner, helps you embrace the joy within through the unique power of meditation. Based on his thirty-four years of study and practice under the guidance of sixty teachers from the East and West, Alan Wallace describes a range of Tibetan meditation techniques from the simplest mindfulness of breathing to the exalted methods of Dzogchen.

Encapsulating the most promising principles of Buddhist teachings, Genuine Happiness outlines the five essential Tibetan meditations that will help you achieve greater happiness: Meditative quiescence: mindfulness of breathing, settling the mind in its natural state, and cultivating awareness of simply being awareThe Four Applications of Mindfulness (of the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena): the fundamental teachings on the cultivation of contemplative insightThe Four Immeasurables (compassion, loving-kindness, empathic joy, and equanimity): the heart's path to genuine happinessDream yoga: both daytime and nighttime practicesDzogchen: the Great Perfection

Featuring a foreword from the Dalai Lama, Genuine Happiness will help you collect and focus your mind away from the dullness and compulsive agitation of daily life. Through these Buddhist techniques and meditations, you will discover how to train your mind to delve into deeper and deeper states of awareness. Each chapter begins with a guided meditation, introductory material, and thoughts for further contemplation.

Through practice, understanding, and Alan Wallace's guidance, you will learn to follow the path of genuine happiness to its source--by tapping your inner natural resources to the fullest.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/01/2005, Page 94
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/28/2005, Page 61

About the author

B. ALAN WALLACE, Ph.D., a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation throughout Europe and North and South America since 1976. He devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk and was ordained by the Dalai Lama. Wallace also earned an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford. He lives in Santa Barbara, where he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

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