Restoring the Balance sharing Tibetan wisdom by Dr Akong Tulku RinpocheISBN: 0-9584348-4-0
soft cover; 210 x 135mm; 144 pages; 24 pages full colour illustrations
Price: R130.00
To purchase: http://www.yourbooks.co.za/detail.asp?id_Book=1764
Publication date: April 2005
Description
This book offers Akong Rinpoche’s timeless wisdom to help us face the challenge of living happy and useful lives in an increasingly bewildering world. We cannot change the world to conform to our wishes. What we can do is to have mastery over how we experience it: we can learn to accept and adapt to ever-changing circumstances maturing our minds in the process. With balancing we learn to access our inner potential through the process of living.
Contents
1. Are you genuinely yourself?
We look for freedom in the wrong placeAll things changeInner potential It’s not instant coffee2. Balancing: What is it?
Healing wounds, preventing new ones A recipe for nourishmentSeeing the whole pictureA step by step maturationNo blameUniqueness of experienceBalancing is not goal-orientedReflections and exercisesA daily balancing exercise3. Free to be who we are
Free despite all trappingsThe chains that keep us from flyingSeeing both friends and enemies as helpfulWe are not caught in a single scriptUse negative as the ground for learningReflection: Freedom comes from deep understandingReflection: Change the mind from negative to positive4. How we come to be as we are
Four major factors shape our personalitiesCause and result – known as karmaGenetic heritagePre-natal conditioningConditioning in lifeReliving the birth experienceInborn talents and facultiesBody is house, mind the tenantSo the mind is what matters mostReflection: How do I value myself?5. Change the habits of a lifetime
Start by assessing what is thereWhen meeting daily challengesWe can learn from failure and move onReflection: Learning to grow from adversity 6. Being flexible is being alive
Going beyond ego-clinging: the door is not lockedFlexibility of choice in the path we takeCultural prejudices produce rigid attitudesGoing beyond prejudiceReflection: Developing maturity and flexibility7. Coordination: body-speech-mind
‘Show all your faults – clearly like crystal’Not too little, not too muchListening clearlyIs the bottle half-empty or half-full?Mindfulness keeps us alert and aliveReflection: When communication breaks down8. Coordination: the Middle Way
Coordination: the middle way We wear masksWe projectHelping others according to their needsNo more inner warfareLetting go of limited perspectivesAllowing spaceLack of coordination in the familyCommunication failureHow we beginWorking with and for others – a source of energy9. Caring for our world
How everything is interrelatedPlaying with our mother’s eyeThe world we live inOld TibetThe value of simplictyOur planet is not the only oneSelf-regulating organismsWhat we can doTaming and training our mind/minds?Mind is beyond everythingIt’s time to begin the change10. Impermanence: the way things are
The freshness of a flower: now!The foolish fox and the foolish womanSeeing everything as illusionAccepting reality: the beginning of wisdomReflection: Right motivation11. Non-expectation compassion
About non-expectationWhat the world needs now: limitless compassionLabels are not helpfulWe make our lives an offering- Tara Rokpa Therapy: the significance of the name by Akong Rinpoche
- Tara Rokpa Therapy: background and contents
- Working with the Elements by Edie Irwin
- The Refuge from Tibet by Lea Wyler
- Rokpa International: Helping where help is needed
- Picture gallery of Cetres and activities
Reviews
Westerners live under stressful conditions that tend to produce an imbalance in their minds and emotions. Using the wisdom of Tibetan compassion, Akong Rinpoche has designed methods to help people bring their minds into harmony and balance.
- Rob Nairn, student of Akong Rinpoche
