We're bombarded with advice about how to live--how to find happiness, how to maintain relationships, how to help the world--and yet has all this advice brought us peace? In How Not to Miss the Point, beloved Buddhist teacher Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche focuses on the Buddha's core teachings--basic principles that are universally true, whether we are Buddhist or not--as a way to cultivate our inner light and work for good, no matter how the world unfolds around us.
Because the simplicity of the Buddha's fundamental teachings--the three basic laws of nature, four noble truths, and eightfold path--can get lost in complexity, Rinpoche goes straight to their heart to convey the Buddha's core message: If we want this life--our own life, the lives of others, and the life of our planet--to be fulfilling and good, we must accept responsibility for cultivating the best qualities of our human mind and life. To put the how-and-why into practice, Rinpoche guides us through the steps of the Buddha's path.
How Not to Miss the Point: The Buddha's Wisdom for a Life Well Lived, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 184 pages, $21.95
Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche, born in India in 1967, is the daughter of Tibetan meditation master His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen and is herself a renowned teacher in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the head of a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in India and divides her time between teaching in the West, running the nunnery, and supporting charity projects for Tibetan refugees in India.
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