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The Eastern Path to Heaven: A Guide to Happiness from the Teachings of Jesus in Tibet

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The key point is that this book teaches truth and brings Christ's teachings to life in a practical way. Behind this book there happens to stand an amazing history of canonical and extra-canonical gospels. But on a practical level this little book takes one by a storm and puts one in the eye of the hurricane of interpersonal peace and power. Unlike most self-help books "The Eastern Path to Heaven" opens the secret of exactly how to apply the golden rule in a meaningful and fruitful way and how to experience seeds thriving and growing in your life.

Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally's "The Eastern Path to Heaven" is, as its subtitle states, "a guide to happiness." It identifies the golden rule as the Mahayana tradition taught in India by Saint Thomas, especially in the Ghandara City of Taxila and transmitted ultimately to Nalanda and later, Tibet. The book stays its course in teaching the golden rule in a Christian paradigm with light strokes of compatible Buddhist ideas.

It's focus is an extended contemplation on, and application of, the parable of the mustard seed in the context of planting those seeds in the soil of the golden rule. Although mildly like The Secret, here the positive principle is identified not only by how you think for and with yourself but, even more importantly what you do and how you act toward others. In that sense of hospitable manners, such as Jesus' open-table fellowship, it is truly a banquet of the exchange of beauty through practicing planting seeds of goodness in each others' lives. This is the real key to "The Secret:" doing for others what we wish for self.

Christianity is a western religion - but the teachings were sent east. "The Eastern Path to Heaven: A Guide to Happiness from the Teachings of Jesus in Tibet" is the story of Thomas, one of Jesus's apostles who went along the trade roads to spread the gospel to the east. A study of this little known expedition and how it affected the development of Eastern cultures, "The Eastern Path to Heaven" is an intriguing piece of religious history. A highly recommended and scholarly addition to academic library Metaphysical Studies and Christian Studies reference collections, "The Eastern Path to Heaven" is something to be considered by both historians and theologians.

This is a wonderful and tremendously inspiring book-
This book can change your life--and happily so
It changed mine.

A beautiful daily reader. Full of love and insight from Jesus' teachings as given by the apostle Thomas in the East. Be sure to read the history of how Thomas came to be in the East. Geshe Michael Roach addsThe Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life his own special touch from his deep understanding of Tibetan Gelukpa Buddhist Tradition.