Healing Meditations (Shambhala Pocket Classics) [Paperback]

Tulku Thondup (Author)

Book Description

Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics | Publication Date: June 30, 1998

When we learn to loosen the clinging attitudes that Buddhists call "grasping at self," we release the mind's innate power to heal pain, stress, and illness—to heal not only our mental and emotional afflictions but physical ailments as well. This little book offers easy healing meditation exercises in a convenient, portable form. The meditations are drawn from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition but are adapted for use by everyone, requiring no adherence to any particular religious beliefs. The exercises make use of inspiring images and sounds, pure perceptions, soothing feelings, positive emotions such as trust and confidence, and the realization of the mind's naturally open and peaceful state. The meditations include healing for physical ailments and pain, tension and stress, sadness and depression, self-criticism and oversensitivity, scattered mental states, negative memories, troubling relationships, fear and worry. The book also includes advice on simple ways to nourish a healthful state of body, speech, and mind in everyday life. An abridgement of Tulku Thondup's Healing Power of Mind.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Tulku Thondup outlines a means toward healing not just body, mind, and spirit, but the heart as well. A such, this healing path is a spiritual practice, a way to transform our very lives."—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

About the Author

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, an esteemed author and teacher, was born in East Tibet and studied at the famed Dodrupchen Monastery. In 1958 he settled in India, where he taught at Indian universities for many years. He came to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. For the past two decades he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaging in translation and writing on Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Nyingma teachings, under the auspices of the Buddhayana Foundation. Among his books are The Healing Power of Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages, and Boundless Healing, in twelve languages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Shambhala (June 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570623724
• ISBN-13: 978-1570623721
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #763,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This portable book is a great tool in meditation and healing, February 17, 1999

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(Stephanie Hairston) [e-mail] (Bristol, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Meditations (Shambhala Pocket Classics) (Paperback)

I was lucky enough to run across this book in a small book store in Northampton, Massachusetts. Seeing its convenient size and wonderful content, I thought it would be a great starting place to learn meditation. Well, I was right! I think it would be a great start for anyone interested in meditation, or using their minds to heal and understand themselves.

Tulku Thondup is a Tibetan Buddhist who brings peace and clarity to his writing. This wonderful volume has insights into life, suffering, and healing that will bring a new understanding to your life.

An abridgement of Thondup's book, _The Healing Power of Mind_, _Healing Meditations_ is comprehensive and surprisingly well put together. It features an introduction about Thondup's background and how Eastern religion and philosophy can bring peace and understanding into one's life. After that, it introduces the essentials of meditation, how to get started, and how one can use meditation to bring inner peace. Most of the book deals with how meditation can be used to heal various mental afflictions such as grief, depression, fear, worry, self-criticism, a 'scattered mind,' bad dreams, bad memories, and alienation, to name a few, and even how to use it to help physical ailments. The book also introduces helpful Buddhist practices such as visualization and mindfulness, which is learning to live in and appreciate the present in every way possible. Additionally, the book details several other meditation techniques and uses, and helps provide a glimpse into the peaceful Buddhist philosophy.

Personally, this book has helped me come to terms with bad memories and actually has helped me to feel better when ill. Take note that this book does not do so through mystical concepts that are `out there' or beyond reach, attributes which skeptics have placed upon meditation. It helps to heal through psychological and mental means, and through a self-awareness that provides new insight into life.

I promise you that you will truly enjoy this book and find it useful in everday life. Its small size makes it convenient to travel with, whether flying on an airplane or simply going to work or school. The insight into life and the simple, effective meditations described inside make this book a wonderful way to learn to live life more peacefully, healthfully, and happily.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best Book on Psychiatry and Psychology That exists!, September 4, 2000

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Bill Butler "Bill Butler" (Tarzana, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Meditations (Shambhala Pocket Classics) (Paperback)

This book is a Godsend to anybody with psychological problems. How far have we come? Answer me that. Cognitive Thearapy and Drugs. Is that it? Self-help books?

This man is a doctor. He is not against drugs. And many of the exercises are similar to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). But CBT is primative. Simply stated, CBT believes that thoughts create negative emotions. For example, if I think "Oh what a rotten review this is", an episode of depression results. Then I must(oops!)will counter this negative thought with "rational thoughts". Have you ever thought of just letting it be? Not repress or analyze it. Make it into a dark blue cloud. Feel it. Feel all of it. Now imagine a beautiful white light. This may be your Higher Power (Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny). Still feel the blue cloud. Feel it completely. And BELIEVE TOTALLY that your Higher Power will send a white rain that will disperse the blue cloud. BELIEVE IT! Another exercise is to remember what good you have done in life. It is very hard to raise a child. Even badly. Did you do it? Think how much giving that involved! Did you work at a 9 to 5 job for 6 years. Now that is REAL giving. It is. And it is very hard. Monotonous and tedious. And YOU did it. It IS hard. How much have you accomplished? Did you ever help anybody? Well, look at it. A lot of people help nobody. See it as big as a movie screen. Stop getting in the gutter with negative thinking. When you clean your house, you are getting rid of all your negativities (depression, anger, anxiety). You are freeing yourself! If you BELIEVE THIS, it will be true. Are you scared about an upcoming event. Root canal? What an opportunity!. Just think. An opportunity to have REALLY good teeth! BUY this book. I am at the confusion level with this book. The techniques do work. You can "feel" a problem as a seperate obeject. Feel it. Then have your Higher Power rain and dissolve it. And the pain is gone! Weird. Auto-suggestion? Self-hypnosis? Tulku Thondup states that a "positive attitude" is necessary to get through life. Isn't he right?