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Everyone appreciates kindness. A smile, a few friendly words, a show of concern when we're troubled or feeling unwell, an offer of help - gestures of kindness like these brighten our day and ease whatever sadness we may feel in our hearts. Feeling that "someone cares" fulfills a very deep need that we all have. And just as we appreciate other people being kind to us, others appreciate it when we are kind to them. That is why it is important to learn to be kind, because it will help make our relationships and interactions with others more satisfying and less problematic.
But it's not always easy to be kind. Sometimes our hearts are filled with anger, jealousy, or pride, and being kind is the last thing we feel like doing. Or we get so caught up in our work and responsibilities that we find no time to think of others and their needs, no time to be kind and gentle. However, these problems can be remedied. The Buddhist tradition offers a wealth of methods that can be used to overcome whatever prevents us from being kind and gentle.
Some of these methods are explored and explained in this book - in a way that will allow you to practice them in your daily life. Awakening the Kind Heart offers powerful and inviting meditation techniques to activate the heart of kindness within us all - a modern and motivating interpretation of traditional and powerful practices.
- Sales Rank: #1436549 in Books
- Published on: 2010-05-25
- Released on: 2010-05-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
Review
"This book will help you find happiness and true satisfaction, and help you live a life of benefit to others." (Lama Zopa Rinpoche, author of How to Be Happy and Wholesome Fear)
"Through clear explanations, straightforward practices, and basic goodheartedness, this book explains how to navigate the path to love, even under very trying circumstances. Truly, there is nothing more needed at this time-our very future may depend upon it." (Susan Piver, author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart)
"Kathleen McDonald is a remarkably skilled meditation teacher. In this precious gem of a book, she shows us how to open our hearts into deepest solidarity with others and thereby uncover our truest selves." (John Makransky, author of Awakening Through Love)
"A brilliant book and a must-read for all seekers." (Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of Boundless Healing)
About the Author
Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro) was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1974. She is a respected and inspiring teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, a worldwide organization of Buddhist teaching and meditation centers.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
For seriously transformative souls
By R.E. Burke
Encountering the everyday world can be daunting for most of us given all the negative influences (anger, frustration, etc.) and opportunities to chase attachments (sex, money, power) that ultimately prove less than satisfying. At their best, Christianity and Buddhism are transformative exercises in spiritual development whereby we seek to encounter the world not with more negativity but rather with a spirit of kindness, compassion, and forgiveness.
Both faiths have ways of going about this. Those who follow the middle path of Buddhism often choose metta meditation, "metta" meaning lovingkindness. Dogma aside, Buddhism has systematized and refined meditative techniques for kindness and compassion to a very high level. These techniques in turn are part and parcel of a tradition of contemplative mysticism stretching back several millennia in both faiths and leading in the past century to a Christian/Buddhist dialog between such well-known figures as Thomas Merton, John Main, the Dalai Llama, and Thich Naht Hanh.
Kathleen McDonald is a culmination of this tradition in her down to earth guide to meditations on kindness and compassion. As with her previous book "How to Meditate," Ms. McDonald focuses on methods for establishing a day to day practice of metta meditation. She has a refreshingly open approach that is not overly dogmatic in tone although she does bring some Buddhist concepts into play. Her work is not an inspirational treatise or an intellectual history of this kind of meditation. It seeks rather to give the reader some worthwhile starting points for actual meditation.
From this standpoint, she addresses meditations that focus on our kindness to others, the kindnesses of others to ourselves, and an equinanimous approach to others. I particularly enjoyed her discussion toward the end of the Eight Verses of Mind Transformation.
It's worth noting that announcements that we will be kind and compassionate, as well as exhortations to others, do not have as much practical value as actually setting out to be kind and compassionate in our thoughts, words, and actions. It is in acting that we bring about such virtues. Ms. McDonald has given us an action-oriented guide. The more we are able to practice such virtues in our thoughts, then the more our words and actions will also reflect this. When we reach the point of maintaining this attitude even with those we have reason to dislike intensely, then we have made some notable progress.
As with Ms. McDonald's other book on meditation, this is not a "read" so much as a handbook to be consulted in the course of one's meditation practice. It is really a work for anyone with a concern for kindness and compassion, not just those with a specific commitment to Buddhism. I highly recommend it, but please keep in mind that this is not something to just be read and put down. It is the entry point to what might become a very substantial commitment to transform oneself in positive ways.
My thanks go to Ms. McDonald for writing this. And my apologies go to anyone who feels that my characterizations are clumsy or inexact; it was not my intention to be offensive.
P.S.: Those who would like to get a sense of more Christian approaches might consider consulting Merton's "Contemplative Prayer." Merton, of course, has an explicitly Catholic approach which tends to focus on techniques such as the Liturgy of the Hours (the Divine Office). Although the Christian emphasis on a contemplative vocation has suffered in recent centuries, there is still a considerable body of work available to those who look for it. I can especially recommend the version of "The Cloud of Unknowing" with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill. Written by a fourteenth century monk, this little gem seems to be coming back into vogue.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful book
By regular reader
This is the second book by Kathleen McDonald I have read. The first was her book "How to Meditate, a Practical Guide". I have found this book to be an excellent companion to the first. Also containing meditation practices and teachings this book has helped me advance in my knowledge and practice of Buddhism. I use both books on a daily basis.
I highly recommend this book either as a companion to "How to Meditate, a Practical Guide" or as a stand alone read. Kathleen is an excellent teacher of meditation. As a beginner with a "lone" practice I have found her books to provide me with the teaching necessary to begin and progress in my Buddhist path.
You need not be a beginner to benefit from her teaching. Whether you choose to simply read the book once or use in in an ongoing manner I believe you will find it most beneficial.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellant for anyone who wants to reduce inner turmoil and cultivate inner peace and love for all
By ItsMe
Written by a Western nun, this book is very clear and understandable. I attend a weekly study & meditation group consisting of Buddhists (1-5 years experience) and non-Buddhists. We have met for 3 years. This is the first book we read where there are almost no questions, because the text is so easy to understand. She presents concepts and then follows them with guided meditations (she suggestions the questions to ask yourself, the points to ponder). The group liked this book so much that once we finished it we started over to read and practice it again. A great guide for learning how to meditate on compassion, eliminate anger, etc. for people who don't know how.
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