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365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart

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This book is a compilation of quotations from the Dalai Lama (spiritual leader of Tibet). It is not an essay or story, though the quotes are loosely grouped by category.

The quotations are written simply and directly, and contain a great degree of insight into the human emotions and the human spirit.

It serves as an excellent daily inspiration for living or meditation.

I love the Dalai Lama's writing, have read quite a few of his books. I think that there are some insights here, but didn't come away from it as inspired from other writings.

The chapters are organized into subject categories. So, if you use it as a meditation guide you'll be meditating on "living a life of plenty" or "prison and prisoners" for a few days at least.

I didn't find this as useful as 365 Tao (which I've used regularly) by Deng Ming-Dao. I felt 365 Tao provided different ways to approach each topic, you could choose your meditation.

365 Dalai Lama is something that you can read through, and think about the topics. I wasn't motivated to meditate on them. The one thing that I didn't like about it was the fact that some topics went on for days and days. I didn't necessarily feel I wanted to meditate on pessimism for 13 days, a day of thought about a topic provides me conscious investigation. Revisiting it helps bring up subconscious learning later.

But banging my head against a topic for days and days wasn't an enjoyable task. For a monk maybe, eating rice every day. I rather enjoy the variety of reflection on different topics daily however. That quality made the book spartan, somewhat bland.

Maybe it was just me, but I'd probably get his lectures, or expanded treatises on topics (i.e. The Art of Happiness) instead - I think this is where his thought processes, reasoning, and ability to convince you about quality of life choices shine.

This is one of those books which I treasure and page through on occasion. It's a nice book to have on the nightstand. I don't meditate. I pray. I guess some people would read one quotation a day and meditate on it, but this isn't my style. I enjoy reading several quotes in one session--there's so much wisdom here.

the dalami lama rocks. if more people sought the teachings of buddism the planet would be a safer, happier and healthy place. the book is quality construction. i especially like the range of issues and topics...something for everyone to relate to and pause to ponder.