Tsoknyi Rinpoche. (2012). Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love. Harmony/Rodale.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche. 2012. Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love. Harmony/Rodale.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love. Harmony/Rodale, 2012.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love. Harmony/Rodale, 2012.

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In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche—one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters—explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is not only possible, it’s our birthright. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved openly and freely, and for the confidence and clarity to meet the various challenges we face in our daily lives.
Within each of us resides a spark of unparalleled brilliance, an unlimited capacity for warmth, openness, and courage, which Rinpoche identifies as “essence love.” Timeless and imperishable, essence love is often layered over by patterns of behavior and belief that urge us to seek happiness in conditions or situations that never quite live up to their promise.
Drawing on rarely discussed teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche describes how such patterns evolve and offers a series of meditation exercises to help us unravel them and, in the process, reawaken an energy and exuberance that can not only bring lasting fulfillment to our lives but ultimately serve to enliven and inspire the entire world, as well.
With great humor, intelligence, and candor, Tsoknyi Rinpoche also details his own struggles to reconnect with essence love. Identified at an early age as the incarnation of a renowned Tibetan master and subjected to a rigorous monastic training, he ultimately renounced his vows, married, and is now the father of two daughters.
As he recounts his own efforts to strike a balance between the promptings of his heart and an obligation to preserve and protect the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche provides a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern life, and encourages each of us to rediscover the openness, fearlessness, and love that is the essence of our own life.

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   • source: Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
   • content: "Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a most wonderful teacher, warm-hearted, deep, honest and funny. This book captures his teachings and spirit beautifully, profound teachings offered in a kind, truly accessible and personal way."
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   • source: Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness
   • content: "Designed both for people new to meditation and those with long experience, Open Heart, Open Mind is a treasure trove of wisdom and love. It is a book filled with practical exercises, personal anecdotes, humor, compassion, clarity, and an expansive view of how we can each have a better life."
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   • source: Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
   • content: "Tsoknyi Rinpoche's Open Heart, Open Mind is amazing in a number of ways. Tsoknyi Rinpoche grew up in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His family is full of meditation masters and their energy surrounded him from an early age. Yet he is also interested in and experienced with Western neuroses and Westerners' minds. The result is a refreshing, invigorating, and stimulating work: one that has the power to awaken that essence we all seek."
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   • source: Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
   • content: "Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a rare gem--a teacher who combines a deep understanding of the Buddhist tradition with remarkable insight into the challenges we face in the modern world. In this book, he skilfully weaves together profound teachings on 'essence love' and the 'subtle body' with examples from everyday life to show how it is possible to overcome our fears and limitations, and ignite the boundless wisdom and compassion that we all have within us."
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     February 13, 2012
     In this intermediate guide to Buddhist principles, popular Tibetan teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche III writes, “Learning to live with... courage requires us to see the nature of the challenges we face, the nature of ourselves, and the nature of reality, in a radically different light.” To this end, the author addresses such obstacles as habitual patterns and the process of identification, then outlines ways to access the individual’s “tremendous inner potential for openness, warmth, and wisdom.” He provides detailed insights on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—body, feeling, thoughts, and dharma, which he interprets as space, along with discussions of the subtle body, bodhicitta (seeking enlightenment for all), tonglen (cultivating compassion), dzogchen (“great perfection”), and the six paramitas (perfections). Raised in Nepal and now married with two children, Tsoknyi Rinpoche uses many examples from his challenging teenage experiences at a monastery in India and includes anecdotes from his students. His notable skill is using clear language and homespun analogies to illuminate Buddhist concepts. Tibetan terms are explained as well as their Sanskrit equivalents. Simple practices are scattered throughout; a glossary is included. Warm and largely accessible, this book is a master class for practitioners looking for clear explanations of Buddhism’s ideas from a Tibetan perspective. Agent: Emma Sweeney.

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     February 15, 2012
     Zen life and the art of mindfulness. A well-respected teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche is recognized by many as a spiritual leader imparting a progressive combination of old Tibetan wisdom and 21st-century practicality. Richard Gere considers himself a student of the author, writing in the introduction that Rinpoche encourages followers to "discover, then rest in, the open truth of our natural essence, our original beingness." This quote illustrates both the book's pros and cons: Rinpoche's insights will be a boon for veteran Buddhists, while uninitiated readers may be lost among the navel-gazing. To his credit, the author's approach is both practical and philosophical as he dispenses transcendent guidance to those in what he terms as modern-day "bondage" to informational overload, job stress and complex agendas. Chapters on the author's Nepalese upbringing and lineage set the appropriate foundation for the good work that's been his calling since the age of eight. Rinpoche details a rich history of worldwide travel spent apprenticing with an array of Tibetan gurus and a rewarding lifetime enjoying the presence of followers eager to absorb the tenets of his self-nurturing belief systems. Proverbs, Tibetan interpretations, sage wisdom and anecdotes further exemplify the author's themes of blissfulness and the unconditional inherence of "essence love." Though best appreciated by the spiritually sophisticated, Rinpoche's infectious spiritual energy, enthusiasm and insight will still prove relevant for anyone with an open mind and a willingness to project peace and goodness inward and outward. Centered serenity from one of the greats.

     COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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