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How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
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Description
In How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers a simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama guides us through seven key stages. He helps us to open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment. (Adapted from source Jan 19, 2026)
Citation
Dalai Lama, 14th. "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships." Translated and Edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. New York: Atria Books, 2005.
Table of contents
- Forewordvii
- 1. My Outlook1
- 2. Stages of Development7
- 3. Basic Purity of the Mind15
- 4. Foundational Step: Viewing Friend and Foe29
- 5. The First Step: Recognizing Friends41
- 6.The Second Step: Appreciating Kindness51
- 7. The Third Step: Returning Kindness71
- 8. The Fourth Step: Learning to Love75
- 9. The Difference Between Love and Attachment97
- 10. Love as the Basis of Human Rights113
- 11. Widening the Circle of Love121
- 12.The Fifth Step: The Power of Compassion133
- 13. The Sixth Step: Total Commitment155
- 14. The Seventh Step: Seeking Altruistic Enlightenment161
- 15. The Enormous Power of Altruism189
- 16. Acting with Love199
- Selected Readings211
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