AbstractThe two texts discussed in this book are devoted to the method of “training the mind,” that is, improving our attitude to reality. The first text, a “soft” change of consciousness, can be effectively used by a person of any persuasion, making his life calmer and happier. Lama Zopa discovered the second, “radical Buddhist” text in 1990, and, having read it, amazed his students with the statement that only now for the first time did he feel the true taste of the Dharma and realized that all his previous spiritual practice and activity was not the Dharma . This book is Lama Zopa's own commentary on both of these works. Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is an outstanding yogi who never sleeps, and one of the most famous modern Buddhist teachers, head of the international Foundation for the Maintenance of Mahayana Traditions (FPMT).

AbstractThe two texts discussed in this book are devoted to the method of “training the mind,” that is, improving our attitude to reality. The first text, a “soft” change of consciousness, can be effectively used by a person of any persuasion, making his life calmer and happier. Lama Zopa discovered the second, “radical Buddhist” text in 1990, and, having read it, amazed his students with the statement that only now for the first time did he feel the true taste of the Dharma and realized that all his previous spiritual practice and activity was not the Dharma . This book is Lama Zopa's own commentary on both of these works. Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is an outstanding yogi who never sleeps, and one of the most famous modern Buddhist teachers, head of the international Foundation for the Maintenance of Mahayana Traditions (FPMT).