The Heroic Heart
Awakening Unbound Compassion
Shambhala · Print & ebook · August 16, 2022
A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind—from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns.
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- Who it’s for
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo reflects on Tibetan Buddhist mind training and bringing compassion into daily life.
- Themes
- Cultivating compassion, Buddhist mind training, Mindfulness and selflessness
- Genres
- Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Inspiration & Personal Growth
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A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind—from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns. Freeing ourselves from our habitual emotional patterns starts with taming the mind. Why is this so important? Because a wild mind tends to hurt rather than heal. Taming the mind helps us uncover our true nature and connect with those around us from a grounded place of self-awareness.
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Through caring for others you can walk the Buddhist path of bodhisattvas, becoming a spiritual hero of compassion. Based on the classic fourteenth-century mind training text of Tibetan Buddhism called the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, this guidebook shares pithy advice on how to act as bodhisattvas in our everyday lives, enabling us to possess compassion in an authentic way. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, an exemplary spiritual teacher who spent over a dozen years meditating in the Himalayas and one of the first Buddhist nuns to be ordained in the West, shares her reflections on this famous teaching and how to live a life of mindfulness and selflessness.
Bodhisattva Practices
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo reflects on Tibetan Buddhist mind training and bringing compassion into daily life.
Come here for
- Reflections on the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
- Guidance on compassion in everyday life
Expect
- Advice on taming habitual emotional patterns
- Reflections on mindfulness and selflessness
Where it sits
| Tibetan Buddhism | 42% |
|---|---|
| Meditation | 39% |
| Inspiration & Personal Growth | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Meditation
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Authors
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Published
- August 16, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cultivating compassion · Buddhist mind training · Mindfulness and selflessness
- Reading lane
- Meditation