Don't Believe Everything You Think

Living with Wisdom and Compassion

It can be hard for those of us living in the 21st century to see how 14th-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you’re trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued, though you conquer external foes, they will only increase" can seem a little obscure. Thubten Chodron’s illuminating explication of Togmay Zangpo’s revered text, The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, doesn’t just explain its profound meaning; in dozens of passages she lets her students and colleagues share first-person stories of the ways that its teachings have changed their lives. Some bear witness to dramatic transformations - making friends with an enemy prisoner-of-war, finding peace after the murder of a loved one - while others tell of smaller lessons, like waiting for something to happen or coping with a minor injury.

©2012 Thubten Chodron (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Recommend

Well written, easy to follow, and includes practical steps. The read keeps you involved and wanting to hear more.

Complete & Complex

this is a very detailed and complete English perception of the miny complex steps toward becoming a bodhisattva

Everyone should listen to this.

Provides wonderful information and insights into how we think. The 37 guidelines to live by are highly useful.

listen to this book

This is great book I'll make sure to listen to it every year or twice yearly .

great...now i want to be a monk 😒

Read without pretentious verbiage, seems like it's written with good intentions. Sheds light on practices and philosophies that would otherwise be worlds away. Very clear and simple language the reader has a great voice for conveying it's message. It's one book in my library that's worth every penny.