Freedom Through Understanding: The Buddhist Path to Happiness

Freedom Through Understanding: The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation

"Buddhism isn't some fanatical religious trip. It's a philosophical way of living life. And also, to study Buddhism you don't need to believe in something extreme. It's a matter of investigating, examining and experimenting on yourself. It's not just belief. Without understanding, belief can be very dangerous. So what Lord Buddha emphasized was that understanding is the path to liberation, knowledge is the path to liberation." (Lama Thubten Yeshe)

"The practice of religion, spirituality or Dharma has to be a method that completely destroys all suffering, a method that brings about the complete cessation of suffering, and not just temporarily. That depends upon completely eradicating the root of all the billions of sufferings that existâ€”ignorance and all the other delusions that spring from the root of ignorance. True peace is received whenever we completely eradicate this root of suffering. In other words, cessation of ignorance, attachment and anger is real freedom, true peaceâ€”the peace that never changes; the peace that once received can never change, is everlasting." (Lama Zopa Rinpoche)

In Lama Yesheâ€™s and Lama Zopa Rinpocheâ€™s first trip to Europe they offered a weekend seminar based on their famous month-long Kopan meditation courses. Preceded by Lama Yesheâ€™s lecture on meditation at Kensington Town Hall, these teachings at Royal Holloway College, Surrey, encompass the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. This short course was also videotaped and is available on a historic DVD also entitled Freedom Through Understanding.

This title was published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, a non-profit organization established to make the Buddhist teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche freely accessible in many ways, including on our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by some of the greatest lamas of our time. Our photo gallery and our ever-popular books are also freely accessible there. You can find out more about becoming a supporter of the Archive and see all we have to offer by visiting the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive website.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-16
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781891868313

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-16
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781891868313

Freedom Through Understanding: The Buddhist Path to Happiness and Liberation

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