Dzongsar what makes you not a buddhist

Apple eBook Download X. Kobo eBook Download X. Nook eBook Download X. Check items to add to the cart or select all. The Buddha Walks into a Bar. By Lodro Rinzler. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. In What Makes You Not a Buddhist , Khyentse reviews the four core truths of the tradition, using them as a lens through which readers can examine their everyday lives.

With wit and irony, he urges readers to move beyond the superficial trappings of Buddhism—beyond the romance with beads, incense, or exotic robes—straight to the heart of what the Buddha taught.

There is much food for thought in this short book for Buddhist students and for anyone interested in the ongoing adaptation of traditional Eastern wisdom into postmodern Western settings. Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. Add to Bookshelf. Aug 12, ISBN Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers:. Paperback —. Also by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse.

See all books by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. How to Free Your Mind. Thubten Chodron. Rebel Buddha. Dzogchen Ponlop. A Chariot to Freedom. Prince Siddhartha no longer needed or wanted the elixir of immortality. By realizing that all things are assembled, that deconstruction is infinite, and that not one of the components in all creation exists in an autonomous, permanent, pure state, he was liberated.

Anything that is put together which we now understand to be everything and its impermanent nature are bound together as one, just like water and an ice cube. When we put an ice cube in our drink, we get both. Just so, when Siddhartha looked at someone walking around, even the healthiest person, he saw this person as both simultaneously living and disintegrating. There might be great satisfaction. It is not like a roller coaster of hope and disappointment going up and down. Seeing things in this way, they begin to dissolve all around us.

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