Jean Smith

Life Is Spiritual Practice: Achieving Happiness with the Ten Perfections

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With this guide, find, and keep, true happiness by discovering and practicing Buddhism's ten virtues. Discover the ten perfections--qualities of the heart and mind that cultivate happiness, wisdom, and compassion--and learn how to bring them into your life with this in-depth practice manual. Life Is Spiritual Practice carefully lays out the perfections, or paramis: the Buddha's foundational teaching for true happiness. Generosity • Ethical Integrity • Renunciation • Wisdom • Wise Effort • Patience • Truthfulness • Resolve • Loving-Kindness • Equanimity Drawing on her more than twenty years of teaching experience, Jean Smith teases out the subtleties of the perfections and offers helpful exercises, real-life examples, and instructions for an independent self-retreat for their practical application. With this book in hand, embody the ten perfections and achieve lasting happiness, regardless of your spiritual tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wisdom Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 347g
• ISBN-13: 9781614291572
• ISBN-10: 1614291578
• Artikelnr.: 41243963

Autorenporträt

Jean Smith is the author/editor of numerous successful books on Buddhism, including 365 Zen, A Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation, Breath Sweeps Mind, and 12 Steps on the Buddha's Path. A longtime associate of the Insight Meditation Society, she is the head of the executive board of the Mountain Retreat Center, in Taos, New Mexico, where she lives.