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Innate Happiness guides busy Westerners on the Buddhist path of liberation from "suffering" and "afflictive emotions" that obscure our Innate Happiness -- our deep inner peace. Concise weekly meditation practices are based on the yogi tradition of Tibetan Buddhism as described by Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche, considered to be the Second Buddha by Tibetans. The book includes a brief history of Buddhism in India and Tibet, as well as its major principles. This is followed by clear, concise steps on the Paths of Individual Liberation, Altruism, Tantra, and the Great Perfection. Each path takes the reader through the Three Trainings: ethics, meditation, and wisdom. It provides a complete cycle of for study, contemplation, meditation and liberation, that are highly suitable for the busy lives of Westerners with little time for formal meditation.
Innate Happiness: Realizing Compassion-Emptiness, Khenpo Drimed Dawa, Snow Lion, 462 pages, 2018, $17.95
Khenpo Drimed Dawa (Dr. Dean Pielstick) is an ordained lay practitioner and was conferred the title of Khenpo by Tulku Khenchen Paljea Dorjee Rinpoche on Losar, 2009, and President of the Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute (then Dharmakirti College) on Losar, 2007. He has also studied with HE Garchen Rinpoche, HE Jigme Lodro Rinpoche, Ven. Traga Rinpoche, Ven. Gyalpo Rinpoche, Ven. Ontul Rinpoche, Yogi Lama Gursam and numerous others. He has studied extensively the teachings of HH the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, along with many other contemporary and historical figures. His primary practice is Dzogchen and he has a particular affinity for the Dzogchen teachings of Longchen Rabjam. Although he makes no claims to having great insights or accomplishments, he has agreed to teach at the request of Tulku Khenchen Paljea Dorjee nevertheless. It is in this spirit that he has agreed to share whatever he knows for the benefit of others.
Dr. Pielstick is also a professor of management for Northern Arizona University in Tucson. He has extensive professional and college administrative experience in addition to classroom instruction.
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