Don't Believe Everything You Think

It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. Thubten Chodron’s illuminating explanation of Togmay Zangpo’s revered text, The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, doesn’t just explain its profound meaning; In dozens of passages, she lets her students and colleagues share first-person stories of the ways that its teachings have changed their lives. Some bear witness to dramatic transformations—making friends with an enemy prisoner-of-war, finding peace after the murder of a loved one—while others tell of smaller lessons, like waiting for something to happen or coping with a minor injury.

Snow Lion

2012