How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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How to Expand Love
Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships

Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jeffrey Hopkins

Narrator: Jeffrey Hopkins

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2005

Synopsis

Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and for others.

Through your kindness toward others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

Expanding peace to the larger community around you will bring unity, harmony, and cooperation.

Expanding peace further still to nations and then to the world will bring mutual trust, mutual respect, sincere communication, and finally successful joint efforts to solve the world's problems.

All this is possible once you learn

HOW TO EXPAND LOVE

With this illuminating and instructive handbook, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers sensible, everyday guidelines for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama describes a seven-step, self-directed program to help us open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives -- and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment.

About His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He frequently describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. Born in northeastern Tibet in 1935, he was as a toddler recognized as the incarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and brought to Tibet's capital, Lhasa. In 1950, Mao Zedong's Communist forces made their first incursions into eastern Tibet, shortly after which the young Dalai Lama assumed the political leadership of his country. He passed his scholastic examinations with honors at the Great Prayer Festival in Lhasa in 1959, the same year Chinese forces occupied the city, forcing His Holiness to escape to India. There he set up the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, working to secure the welfare of the more than 100,000 Tibetan exiles and prevent the destruction of Tibetan culture. In his capacity as a spiritual and political leader, he has traveled to more than sixty-two countries on six continents and met with presidents, popes, and leading scientists to foster dialogue and create a better world. In recognition of his tireless work for the nonviolent liberation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. In 2012, he relinquished political authority in his exile government and turned it over to democratically elected representatives. His Holiness frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of interreligious harmony, and securing the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture, and religion. As a superior scholar trained in the classical texts of the Nalanda tradition of Indian Buddhism, he is able to distill the central tenets of Buddhist philosophy in clear and inspiring language, his gift for pedagogy imbued with his infectious joy. Connecting scientists with Buddhist scholars, he helps unite contemplative and modern modes of investigation, bringing ancient tools and insights to bear on the acute problems facing the contemporary world. His efforts to foster dialogue among leaders of the world's faiths envision a future where people of different beliefs can share the planet in harmony. Wisdom Publications is proud to be the premier publisher of the Dalai Lama's more serious and in-depth works.

About Jeffrey Hopkins

Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D., served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books and translations, he is emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program of Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on April 22, 2018

Dalai Lamas began as a lineage of spiritual teachers. The name is a combination of the Mongolic word for ocean dalai and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "guru", as in teacher or mentor. The current holder of the title is the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who is a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. B......more

Goodreads review by robin on May 18, 2021

The Dalai Lama On Love "When I speak about love and compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist, or as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another". With these words, the Dalai Lama opens his recent guide to expanding one's circle of loving relationships through the p......more

Goodreads review by Amible on July 28, 2008

The Dalai Lama has an interesting point in this book regarding equanimity. -- Look at everyone in this world: friends, foes, family as if they were your mother or nurturer. It's interesting to think that we are only friends with someone, because they offer us something. However, what about those who......more

Goodreads review by Stiven on February 19, 2019

Aunque se me hizo un poco difícil ya que en si el libro se basa completamente en concebir y aceptar el continuo de vidas o la reencarnación, no cabe duda de la gran enseñanza que hay detrás de las palabras escritas por el Dalai Lama, cuando se habla de buscar la felicidad no sólo se refiere a la fel......more

Goodreads review by Jessi on November 14, 2016

It was just such a refreshing and well spent time reading through this. Focusing on love and compassion was a far better use of my time.......more

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