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The Meaning of Life

Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect

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The Meaning of Life

Written by: Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins - editor, Jeffrey Hopkins - introduction, Jeffrey Hopkins - translator
Narrated by: Ken McLeod
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The Dalai Lama presents the basic worldview of Buddhism while offering answers to some of life's most profound and challenging questions: Why are we in this situation? Where are we going? Do our lives have any meaning? How should we live our lives?

Basing his explanation on the twelve links of dependent-arising as depicted in the Buddhist image of the Wheel of Life, His Holiness vividly describes how human beings become trapped in a counterproductive prison of selfishness and suffering, and shows how to reverse the process, changing the limiting prison into a source of help and happiness for others. Suffused with the Dalai Lama's intelligence, wit, and kindness, these teachings address such issues as how to deal with aggression from within and without; how to reconcile personal responsibility with the doctrine of selflessness; how to face a terminal illness; how to help someone who is dying; how to reconcile love for family with love for all beings; and how to integrate this practice into everyday life.

©2000 by Tenzin Gyatso and Jeffrey Hopkins; (P)2001 by Audio Renaissance, an Imprint of Renaissance Media, Inc.
Buddhism Education Ethics Metaphysics Philosophy Religious Studies
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