Böcker av Dakpa Topgyal

Modern life presents us with an infinite number of ethical challenges. How are we to know what is the wisest course of action? Should we look out for our own interests first and then worry about others? Or does our self cherishing attitude deny us the very happiness we seek? Do our individual actions really matter in a world that is beset by so many problems?This book presents the teaching on ethics that was given more than 2,600 years ago by the Buddha Shakyamuni. The lessons from this enlightened human being are so fundamental to the human condition that they remain fully relevant today. Buddhist ethical guidelines have the potential to bring peace and harmony-from the individual to the universal level. An ethical lifestyle is the foundation for and prerequisite to all higher spiritual development, regardless of religious beliefs. The importance of ethics cannot be overemphasized, and this book offers a full discussion of the Buddhist approach.

Buddhism teaches with simple means how to live day by day with joy and peace. It also teaches with the deepest means how to liberate our mind from the clinging and grasping that form the intricate nets of irritating thoughts and emotions that ensnare us. We liberate our mind through developing a powerful antidote to clinging and grasping. This powerful antidote is the thorough and deep wisdom that sees the truth of reality-the way things really are as opposed to how we ordinarily and naively perceive and believe.The truth of reality has two levels that hold true in all time, space and conditions. Gaining full knowledge and experience of the two levels of reality is the only means to liberate our mind from clinging and grasping-the two chronic inner mental illnesses. The two levels of reality are impermanence and emptiness. This book offers a clear explanation of subtle impermanence and emptiness, avoiding the use of complicated philosophical terms, so a modern mind can understand the deepest meaning of what Buddha, out of his universal compassion, taught of impermanence and emptiness as his ultimate message to the confused world.

Geshe Dakpa Topgyal ist ein tibetischer Autor, der in Charleston SC/USA lebt. Er ist M¿nch in der Gelugpa Tradition und hat in Mundgod/Indien das Geshe-Studium an der Drepung Loseling Klosteruniversit¿t abgeschlossen. Er leitet das Dharma-Center in Charleston SC/USA und ist auch der spirituelle Leiter der Dharma-Gruppe in Kleve/Deutschland. In diesem Buch beschreibt er die Zufluchtnahme aus der traditionellen Sichtweise eines tibetischen M¿nchs der Gelugpa-Tradition. Hierbei nimmt er Bezug auf die gesamte kanonische Literatur des Buddhismus, angefangen bei den Suttas des Tripitaka bis hin zum Bodhicary