Avali süda. Kaastunne igapäevaelus

In August 1999, the Tibet Center and the Gere Foundation invited His Holiness the Dalai Lama to New York to give lectures. This book is based on his simple and powerful speeches, and here the religious leader goes deeper than his previous bestsellers The Art of Being Happy and The New Millennium Ethics, showing how we can open our hearts and develop genuine and lasting compassion for all beings based on the Buddhist worldview. The Tibetan religious leader's entire life has been a testament to the power of kindness, his spiritual growth beginning in childhood. At the age of two, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, after which he was taken from his home in northeastern Tibet to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. He was granted the right to temporarily rule Tibet, but after the invasion of the Communist Chinese army, his faith in nonviolence and tolerance was put to the ultimate test. He did his best to protect his people and keep the enemy at bay, while continuing his studies and activities on the Buddhist path of salvation.

In this book, the Dalai Lama shares with people his methods of transforming pride into humility and anger into love, expresses his concern about the gap between the rich and the poor, and prays for the happiness of all beings.
We hope that An Open Heart will help all readers in their search for happiness, so that this happiness will spread to other people and open the hearts of all beings to some extent.
This book can change a person's life.

Afterword: Khjongla Rato and Richard Gere.

Original title: An open heart

Keywords:
Buddhism
Mahayana
Values ​​(philosophy)
Self-cultivation
Compassion
Lectures