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The Path to Awakening by Shamar Rinpoche

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The Path to Awakening

How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happiness

by Shamar Rinpoche

Narrator Leslie Howard

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Length 3 hours 57 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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Mind training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend on a person's background. Mind training nurses and cultivates the Buddha Nature—that pure seed of awakening that is at the very heart of every sentient being. It has the power to transform even egotistical self-clinging into self-lessness. Put into practice diligently, it is enough to lead you all the way to awakening.

In The Path to Awakening, Shamar Rinpoche gives his own detailed commentary on Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points of Mind Training, a text that has been used for transformative practice in Tibetan Buddhism for close to a thousand years. Clear, accessible, and yet profound, this book is filled with practical wisdom, philosophy, and meditation instructions.

Religion Body, Mind, & Spirit

Shamar Rinpoche is the fourteenth Shamarpa and the founder of Bodhi Path Buddhist Centers, a network of centers covering many continents that practice a non-sectarian approach to meditation. Over the years, he has founded several non-profit organizations worldwide that engage in charitable activities such as schooling underprivileged children and promoting animal rights.

Leslie Howard is an audiobook narrator who specializes in nonfiction, young-adult fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. Although she comes to the trade from an unconventional background—one in metaphysics and yoga—she has found that narration focuses her creative, empathic, technical, and performance abilities. A mother of six, she lives on a small farm in central Pennsylvania, where she has spent years homeschooling her children.