Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life Audiobook (Free)

“Life is about relationship-the relationship we have with ourselves, with one another, using the world, as well as the connection compared to that which is beyond anybody yet imminent in each of us. When our interactions are great, we feel good; if they are poor, we experience awful. Let’s acknowledge it: We need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to feel each other’s existence and love.”

What is the “Buddhist center” and how do we awaken it in ourselves? Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling about Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Signifying, and Connection into ALL of Your Life Awakening the Buddha Within, defines the Buddhist heart as our very own inner goodness-our most tender, compassionate, and caring personal, our innate Buddha-nature. The Buddhist center, known as Bodhicitta by Tibetans, beats within each and every one of us and is awakened through significant connections-connections to our families, romantic companions, our colleagues and work, our neighbors, culture, and increasing out to all living animals, including ourselves. This book tells us how exactly we can use romantic relationships as a car for a sacred life.

Everyone must experience connected, to love and experience loved, to attain out to others and communicate in order to overcome alienation, loneliness, and a sense of being disconnected. In Awakening the Buddhist Heart Surya Das demonstrates how to reach inward and outward.

By developing spiritual intelligence, a feeling of compassion that helps us become more delicate, more aware of our very own feelings and the feelings of these all around us, we are more user-friendly; we connect better and like better. Cultivating religious intelligence and learning how exactly to connect will improve our convenience of intimacy, producing us better mates, close friends, parents, and coworkers; it can help all of us to become even more giving and brings us fulfillment, indicating, and love.

Using down-to-earth, everyday encounters and stories, as well as specific historic Buddhist practices and meditations, Surya Das illustrates how exactly to develop authentic presence, how to connect to our very own lifestyle experience, build deeper relationships, accept life’s lessons, as well as learn how to love what we don’t like. With tremendous understanding he explores specific ways in which we can even more fruitfully relate to our own experiences as well as each other in today’s fast-paced, complicated, and often confusing world.

Surya Das also includes his translation from the rare and invaluable Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva-a timeless, legendary Tibetan text, together with his commentary. These methods for self-reflection help us consider how we live our lives and the lessons we are able to study from mindfulness, love, and compassion.