Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk [Paperback]

Bhante Wimala (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 1997

A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.



These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.

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A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.



These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (November 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553378554
• ISBN-13: 978-0553378559
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb - This book really is compelling reading, July 7, 1998

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Sharon [e-mail] (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk (Paperback)

I am not a religious person at all and you don't need to be to appreciate this book. It has been written in a very graceful way that leads you through the book to experience emotions you never knew you could. This book is outstanding and should be read by everyone, the enlightenment the author shares is intense and his adaptation of age old principles into human life today is a gift. Although it would usually be a great pleasure for me to meet an author I do not need to in this case, he has shared so much in the book I feel I know him well. Reading this has been like sitting discussing the ways of the world with a close friend and a really nice experience for me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Work, March 10, 2004

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Swing King (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk (Paperback)

The writer is a monk from Sri Lanka, Bhante Y. Wimala, also the originator of the "Center for Conscious Evolution" in Cambridge. Bhante looks at the entire world as his teacher, and is totally content being in his present state of constant learning. That's the driving gusto of this work, that everything is cinstantly teaching us, incessantly. We can learn not only from holy texts or nature herself, but every single moment; mind you "moment" is eternal and infinite.

Here we are asked to re-contact the child within and reclaim our original inquisitiveness. To acknowledge and appreciate the beauty of all things, not only the sunshine, but also the days of gray. As the old snippet goes, " Rain makes the flowers grow in the field, and also the thorns in the marshes." Bhante also offers fascinating meditative suggestions, and ultimately calls us all to become world participants.

From the book, "The lotus has taken a long path through the mud and the murky water, seeking the sunrise to open its heart to the world and express its essence." Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, June 19, 2001

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celeste wills (Union City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk (Paperback)

I bought this book to understand Buddhism and found instead a spiritual journey filled with discovery and recognition. I highly recomend this book to anyone seeking inner happiness and peace.