Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training

by B. Alan Wallace

Book Overview

In this society, with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. Looking back after ten, twenty, thirty, years--we wonder what we have really accomplished. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559392002
• ISBN13: 9781559392006
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

So you noticed Wallace wrote two books on the Mind Training . . .

Realize they are two very different books! If you are looking for something to benefit your practice then "Buddhism with an Attitude" is the way to go. Although repetitive at times, this itself is helpful, and it is written in a more instructional tone. If you feel your practice has fully matured (lucky you) and you are simply interested in a concise, more academic exposition of the seven point mind training, then "The Seven-Point Mind Training" is the one for you. Also, for being more condensed, the "The Seven-Point Mind Training", will be the book you will want to carry around once you are familiar with Lojong practice.

The why and how of living Dharma

The first fundamental proposition of this book - that liesure and opportunity to embark on the spiritual journey is indeed a exceptionally rare event - is enough to move one's vacillating spiritual longing off of dead center. Following a long second chapter in which this school of Buddhist theory and practice are lucidly distilled, we find five remaining chapters, each benevolently designed for both fledgling and long-standing students to stay the course through life, and for testing their sure-footedness all along the way. For me the contraversial title of this book is appropriate: besides providing 'how-to,' Lojong training bestows the 'wish-to'- which, after all, is the prime mover of spiritual progress. I am grateful to Alan Wallace for sharing his deserved wisdom and understanding with us, and hope that a few young and unsuspecting aspirants will be sucked in by the mainstream title.

simply phenomenal

A truly clear and most interesting dicourse on the Seven-Point Mind Training Method of Buddhism. Compared to HH The Dalai Lama and Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's discourses Chekawa's poem, Mr Wallace truly speaks to the Western mind as a both a philosopher and a teacher. However, the book is highly readable and focused without sacrificing intelligence.

Profound and Exceptional

As a book lover, I am one of those people who never, ever marks the pages of books. However, after the first few sentences I knew this is not a book you simply read, but one to study, digest, and absorb. It is now marked on every page, highlighted and underlined, and I know I will refer to it again and again. Since I am new to the subject, I have been seeking authentic instructions in a way my Western mind can grasp, without losing the richness of it's source. This is not "New Aged" Buddhism Lite, yet the author presents Lojong in a way that is completely accessable and easy to follow. This wonderful teacher is comforting, reassuring, yet challenging. He encourages an immediate and radical change of "attitude" and offers the tools to do it. We are not all fortunate enough to be able to sit at the feet of a master. Reading this book is the next best thing.

Don't let the title fool you

Please don't be thrown off by- what some have considered to be- a less than engaging title. In this book, B. Alan Wallace draws upon his thirty years experience in Tibetan Buddhism and skillfully brings in his own knowledge of physics, cognitive sciences, and other fields of science and psychology to provide for a wonderfully clear, comprehensible, and inspiring elucidation of the Tibetan 7-Point Mind Training.