Life Is Spiritual Practice
Achieving Happiness with the Ten Perfections
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2015
224 pages
978-1-61429-173-2 (ISBN)
Description
With this guide, find, and keep, true happiness by discovering and practicing Buddhism's ten virtues.
Discover the ten perfections--qualities of the heart and mind that cultivate happiness, wisdom, and compassion--and learn how to bring them into your life with this in-depth practice manual. Life Is Spiritual Practice carefully lays out the perfections, or paramis: the Buddha's foundational teaching for true happiness.
Generosity • Ethical Integrity • Renunciation • Wisdom • Wise Effort • Patience • Truthfulness • Resolve • Loving-Kindness • Equanimity
Drawing on her more than twenty years of teaching experience, Jean Smith teases out the subtleties of the perfections and offers helpful exercises, real-life examples, and instructions for an independent self-retreat for their practical application. With this book in hand, embody the ten perfections and achieve lasting happiness, regardless of your spiritual tradition.
Discover the ten perfections--qualities of the heart and mind that cultivate happiness, wisdom, and compassion--and learn how to bring them into your life with this in-depth practice manual. Life Is Spiritual Practice carefully lays out the perfections, or paramis: the Buddha's foundational teaching for true happiness.
Generosity • Ethical Integrity • Renunciation • Wisdom • Wise Effort • Patience • Truthfulness • Resolve • Loving-Kindness • Equanimity
Drawing on her more than twenty years of teaching experience, Jean Smith teases out the subtleties of the perfections and offers helpful exercises, real-life examples, and instructions for an independent self-retreat for their practical application. With this book in hand, embody the ten perfections and achieve lasting happiness, regardless of your spiritual tradition.
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Jean Smith is the author/editor of numerous successful books on Buddhism, including 365 Zen, A Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation, Breath Sweeps Mind, and 12 Steps on the Buddha's Path. A longtime associate of the Insight Meditation Society, she is the head of the executive board of the Mountain Retreat Center, in Taos, New Mexico, where she lives.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: So You Want to Be Happy
- Part I. Foundations for Happiness
- 1. Suffering as the Beginning of Happiness
- Practice and Reflection: Aging
- 2. Impermanence and the Self: The Beginning of Suffering
- Practice and Reflection: Impermanence
- 3. Karma: Creating Suffering or Happiness
- Practice and Reflection: Karma
- 4. Cultivating Mindfulness
- Practice and Reflection: The Hindrances
- Part II. Life Practice: Our Personal Ideals
- 5. An Introduction to the Perfections
- Practice and Reflection: The Perfections
- 6. Generosity
- Practice and Reflection: Generosity
- 7. Ethical Integrity
- Practice and Reflection: Ethical Integrity
- 8. Renunciation
- Practice and Reflection: The Senses
- 9. Wisdom
- Practice and Reflection: Wisdom
- 10. Wise Effort
- Practice and Reflection: Energy
- 11. Patience
- Practice and Reflection: Patience
- 12. Truthfulness
- Practice and Reflection: Truthfulness
- 13. Resolve
- Practice and Reflection: Resolve
- 14. Loving-Kindness
- Practice and Reflection: Loving-Kindness
- 15. Equanimity
- Practice and Reflection: Equanimity
- Appendix: A Self-Retreat on Metta and the Perfections
- Suggested Reading
- Index
- About the Author
- Other Books by Jean Smith
- About Wisdom Publications
- More Books from Wisdom Publications
