Radiance of the Heart (Ringu Tulku 2018)
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Radiance of the Heart: Kindness, Compassion, Bodhicitta
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Description
The Heart Wisdom series aims to make the teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche available to a wider audience, by bringing his oral teachings to the written page. This volume presents some of his teachings on a perennial and core topic - kindness. Drawing on five teaching sources, the text first encourages us with a practical look at how to bring kindness and compassion into our daily lives. Ringu Tulku discusses themes of meditation and the practice of tonglen; and answers a wide range of questions.
The text then looks towards kindness and compassion from a more ultimate perspective: Ultimate Bodhicitta, the heart essence of enlightenment. Embodying such understanding brings an ever purer expression of kindness and compassion, imbued with deepening wisdom. Thus, this small text aims to present a wide-ranging, but pithy, contemplation of this subject, central to the hearts and lives of us all. (Source Accessed Jan 14, 2025)
Citation
Ringu Tulku. Radiance of the Heart: Kindness, Compassion, Bodhicitta. Compiled and edited by Mary Heneghan. Heart Wisdom Series. Hereford, UK: Bodhicharya Publications, 2018.
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Table of contents
- Editor's Prefacexiii
- The Story of the Cobbler and the Angel1
- Bringing Kindness and Compassion into our Daily Lives7
- Being aware8
- Clarifying our view10
- Wishing well, warm heartedness11
- Choosing your action wisely12
- You have to be strong to be kind13
- A natural quality14
- The practice of tonglen15
- Dare to breathe in what you fear16
- Dare to give away what you value17
- Being free to be kind18
- The solution to all the problems in the world18
- We have to do it19
- Negative emotions, letting them go20
- The one true antidote22
- Questions & Answers25
- Kindness, compassion and Bodhicitta25
- Meditating on kindness and facing fear28
- Connecting with tonglen practice30
- Helping ourselves, and helping others, through practice32
- Justified anger'34
- Compassion for people it is hard to feel compassion for35
- Wrathful compassion37
- Taking a vow to become a Bodhisattva37
- Expecting gratitude38
- 'Mixed-up' motivation39
- Healing yourself before helping others?40
- The story of the woman who lost her son42
- Renunciation, attachment and love44
- Choices45
- Helping the elderly47
- A purposeful life48
- 'Compassion fatigue' and empathy49
- Relative and Ultimate Bodhicitta53
- Kindness and Compassion From an Ultimate Perspective59
- Seeds of boundless love and compassion60
- Understanding Ultimate Bodhicitta64
- Approaching Ultimate Bodhicitta69
- Moments72
- Meditating on Ultimate Bodhicitta76
- Paths to realisation79
- Glossary and Notes87
- Acknowledgements95
- About the Author97
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