Daniel Goleman

B. Alan Wallace

Citing the benefits of meditation as a means of improving and honing concentration skills, the author of Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up is aimed at contemporary readers and offers advice on how to address the challenges of today's hectic world, overcome depression and other mental disorders, and more. Original.

Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

The Attention Revolution

This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine of scientific materialism has taken on the role of ersatz-religion for its adherents, he traces its development from its Greek and Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. He looks at scientists' long term resistance to the firsthand study of consciousness and details the ways in which subjectivity has been deemed taboo within the scientific community. In conclusion, Wallace draws on William James's idea for a "science of religion" that would study the nature of religious and, in particular, contemplative experience. In exploring the nature of consciousness, this groundbreaking study will help to bridge the chasm between religious belief and scientific knowledge. It is essential reading for philosophers and historians of science, scholars of religion, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and religion.

Toward a New Science of Consciousness

The Taboo of Subjectivity

Em nossa busca pela felicidade, não precisamos procurar longe. A verdadeira felicidade não é encontrada na conquista da natureza ou na aquisição de fama e fortuna — é encontrada dentro de nós, ao percebermos o potencial de nosso coração e mente. Em Felicidade genuína, B. Alan Wallace, estudioso e praticante budista de longa data, ajuda você a abraçar a alegria interior por meio do poder singular da meditação. Baseado em seus trinta e cinco anos de estudo e prática sob a orientação de sessenta professores do Oriente e do Ocidente, Alan Wallace descreve um conjunto de técnicas de meditação tibetanas desde a mais simples atenção plena na respiração até os elevados métodos do Dzogchen. Abrangendo os princípios mais promissores dos ensinamentos budistas, Felicidade genuína delineia as cinco meditações essenciais tibetanas que lhe ajudarão a alcançar maior felicidade: Quiescência meditativa: atenção plena na respiração, acomodando a mente em seu estado natural e cultivando a consciência de simplesmente estar consciente. As quatro aplicações da atenção plena: os ensinamentos fundamentais sobre o cultivo do insight contemplativo. As quatro qualidades incomensuráveis: compaixão, bondade amorosa, alegria empática e equanimidade. O caminho do coração para a felicidade genuína. Ioga dos sonhos: práticas diurnas e noturnas. Dzogchen: a Grande Perfeição. Com prefácio do Dalai Lama, Felicidade genuína vai ajudá-lo a recolher e focar a mente, afastando-a do embotamento e da agitação compulsiva da vida cotidiana. Por meio dessas técnicas e meditações budistas, você vai descobrir como treinar sua mente e mergulhar em estados de consciência cada vez mais profundos. Cada capítulo começa com uma meditação guiada, material introdutório e pensamentos para contemplação adicional. Por meio da prática, do entendimento e da orientação de Alan Wallace, você vai aprender a seguir o caminho da felicidade genuína até sua fonte — utilizando ao máximo os seus recursos naturais internos. ISBN 978-85-66864-14-4 Tradutora: Jeanne Pilli Formato: 16x23cm Páginas: 208 Sumário Errata do prefácio à edição brasileira

Meditação como o caminho para a realização

Felicidade genuína

meditation in science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Mind in the balance

The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training

Buddhism with an Attitude

shamatha teachings from Düdjom Lingpa's Vajra essence

Stilling the mind

Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)

Contemplative Science

Discover your personal path to bliss "This book will give anyone interested in the spectrum of core meditative practices stemming from the Buddhist tradition but in essence universal the deepest of perspectives on what is possible for us as human beings as well as excellent guidance in the essential, time-tested attitudes and practices for actualizing our innate capacity for wisdom, compassion, and well-being, right here and right now." —Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses and Full Catastrophe Living "In Genuine Happiness, Alan Wallace displays his rare talent in boiling down the complex to the clear and in guiding readers through a practical path to contentment. A gift for all moods and seasons." —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ "This lucid and rich book offers brillant, wise, and accessible teachings on the essentials of four core meditation techniques that lead one to genuine joy and happiness. Alan Wallace's years of practice and teaching shine through every page, as with ease and great humanity, he brings to the reader the possibility of liberation." —Joan Halifax Roshi, abbot of Upaya Zen Center "Genuine Happiness is a treasure chest of wisdom: clear, inspiring teaching jewels. It is an excellent support for any student of meditation." —Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience In today's overstimulated world, many are realizing that happiness gained through material wealth and frivolous conquests is short-lived. To achieve long-term happiness, you must access your own bountiful resources—housed in your heart and mind. In Genuine Happiness, longtime Buddhist practitioner Alan Wallace shows you the path to bliss. Drawing on more than three decades of study under His Holiness the Dalai Lama and sixty other teachers, as well as 2,500 years of Buddhist tradition, Alan Wallace guides you step by step through five simple yet powerful meditations to help you focus your mind and open your heart to true happiness. Featuring a Foreword by the Dalai Lama, this book will help you discover that it is possible to experience genuine happiness every day. As you incorporate the meditations from Genuine Happiness into your life, you will discover that the joy you've sought has always been only a few meditative minutes away.

Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment

Genuine Happiness

Thupten Jinpa

Francisco J Varela

Jerome Engel

This absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, features narration by Francisco Varela, an internationally recognized neuroscientist. Engrossing and highly readable, the conversations will be of merit to any reader interested in psychology, neuroscience, Buddhism, or the alternative worlds of dreams. 10 illustrations. 3 color photos.

An Exploration of Consciousness

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying

Algumas das maiores aventuras da vida podem acontecer enquanto você está dormindo profundamente. Esta é a promessa do sonho lúcido, que é a habilidade de alterar a realidade do seu próprio sonho de qualquer forma que você queira, simplesmente tendo consciência do fato que você está sonhando enquanto está no meio de um sonho. Há uma variedade de técnicas que qualquer pessoa pode aprender para se tornar um sonhador lúcido, e este livro fornece todas as instruções de que você precisa para começar.

Sonhos lúcidos e Ioga tibetana dos sonhos para insight e a transformação

Despertar no sonho

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into a space of vast freedom. Here, Wallace introduces us to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, one of the most cherished works of the Nyingma school from which Dzogchen stems. With his trademark enthusiasm and keen intelligence, Wallace makes obscure concepts intelligible to contemporary readers and allows us to glimpse the profound realizations of a great nineteenth-century spiritual adept.

Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence

Stilling the Mind

Tibetan Buddhist practice isn't just sitting in silent meditation, it's developing fresh attitudes that align our minds with reality. Includes three new translations of Atisha’s source material. In this book, B. Alan Wallace explains a fundamental type of mental training that is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure wellsprings of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes, and frustrations. The lojong—or mind-training—teachings have been the subject of profound study, contemplation, and commentary by many great masters. Wallace shows us the way to develop our capacity for spiritual awareness through his relatable and practical commentary on the mind-training slogans.

A Meditator's Guide to the Tibetan Practice of Lojong

The Art of Transforming the Mind

Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or rather how Buddhism and modern science have definced, rivaled and complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other, the third address point of intersection between Buddhsim and the physical sciences. On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of exploring the nature of human identity the mind, and the universe at large can enrich and enlighten one another.

Breaking New Ground

Buddhism & Science

Compares theories about the nature of objective reality, and describes the views of Buddhism on the ideas of mind, body, and reincarnation

A Contemplative View of Physics and the Mind

Choosing Reality

Dudjom Lingpa

Sera Khandro

Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904) was one of the foremost tantric masters of his time. Buddhahood without Meditation is his most widely taught visionary text. In a series of fourteen visionary encounters with wisdom beings and historical figures in the Great Perfection lineage, Du&die;djom Lingpa's transcendent teachers emphasize the view of cutting through to the original purity of pristine awareness. This view is developed via four themes: nonexistence, oneness, uniform pervasiveness, and spontaneous actualization, which are known as the four special samayas, or pledges, of the Great Perfection. At each stage of his spiritual progress, Dudjom Lingpa's doubts are dispelled and his realizations enhanced by pithy advice. Also included here are two complementary works by Dudjom Lingpa's charismatic female disciple, Sera Khandro, who is accomplished and well loved in her own right. Her short composition Fine Path to Liberation establishes the necessary motivation and conduct for receiving teachings such as Buddhahood Without Meditation. This sublime Dharma is to be seen in the context of the five perfections of the sambhogakaya: the teacher, place, time, disciples, and Dharma are fully perfected and must not be reified as ordinary. Sera Khandro's Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate fills in the gaps of Buddhahood Without Meditation, explaining the metaphors, and spelling out the implications of the root text's highly condensed verses. This extensive commentary is liberally supported with quotations from seminal sutras, tantras, and commentaries. Unless one has already reached a very high level of realization, this commentary is an essential key for unlocking the profound wisdom contained in Buddhahood Without Meditation.

Buddhahood Without Meditation

By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Mind in the Balance

For centuries scientists and philosophers have pondered the relationship between scientific theory and reality. Analyzing two major positions, the author points out the many assumptions required to adopt the realist view, and nihilism implicit in the instrumentalist position.

A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind (2nd Ed.)

Jhampa Kelsang

B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it. Rather, the entire natural world of mind and matter, subjects and objects, arises from a unitary dimension of reality. Wallace employs the Buddhist meditative practice of samatha to test his hypothesis, creating a kind of telescope to examine the space of the mind. He then proposes a more general theory in which the participatory nature of reality is envisioned as a self-excited circuit.In comparing these ideas to the Buddhist theory known as the Middle Way philosophy, Wallace explores further aspects of his "general theory of ontological relativity," which can be investigated through vipasyana, or insight, meditation. He then focuses on the theme of symmetry in quantum cosmology and the "problem of frozen time," relating these issues to the theory and practices of the Great Perfection school of Tibetan Buddhism. He concludes with a discussion of complementarity as it relates to science and religion.

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