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Title: Kindly Bent to Ease Us: Mind by Herbert V. Guenther, Klon-Chen-Pa ISBN: 0-913546-40-2 Publisher: Dharma Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: come again? indeed!
Comment: ...One must realise that dzogchen was developed in a certainculture therefore much is taken for granted in dzogchen works. Oneonly has to look at the four gospels, words that according to Jesus himself are extrinsic to the teachings to his disciples and note the ramified results of that: materialism in a dying world. Herbert Guenther's ramifications of the implications of dzogchen driven through the western mind set are some of the most valuable dzogchen works these days. In the twenties there was the discovery of quantum physics, that really upset the establishment apple cart, it went forward too fast to be suppressed, however they have managed to limit quantum physics to the subatomic level, thus allowing the civilisation to be frozen in accord with their desires to retain power and position. Translations of tibetan works that remain in a taken for granted mindset already commodified in the west maybe ok for lotus eaters, but won't have much impact.
Rating: 3
Summary: come again?
Comment: Many say Geunther is a genius. I might agree. He has some extraordinary, unique perspectives, apparently born from many years of study, in both Tibetan as well as European philosophies. But a translator? It seems he fancies himself more a sort of "decoder," if you will, and his (sometimes lengthy) reasonings behind his peculiar, intense word choices often appear sound. Yet as the years go on, and students of this genre grow in there understanding of key terms, key-term translation is becoming more-and-more standardized, leaving his "translations" less-and-less accessible.
If you work at it, you can squeeze out many of the original Tibetan terms from his indexes, footnotes, etc., and thereby triangulate with the more commonly-used terms. -Somewhat tiresome if what you really want is a more direct translation, for use in a student-teacher situation for example. Furthermore, this book and the other two in the trilogy are much more commentary than translation. This is a shame, since Longchenpa himself wrote an auto-commentary to them.
That said, Guenther IS a great thinker, and if you would like to read Guenther, as opposed (in this case) to Longchenpa, then I'll say, this and all of the books I've read by him (some dozen) are truly fascinating. Very original and thought-provoking.
Maybe look for a translation elsewhere. -no offense, Herb.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kindly Bent to Ease Us
Comment: I have been reading wonderful books that help lead one to true emancipation, enlightenment, and self-acutalization.
Tibetan Buddhism expresses many sound psychological and personal paths to a life and death in peace.
This book, written by Longchenpa and translated by Herbert V. Guenther, is an excellent guide along the path of enlightenment introducing to us the mind of meditation. A few lines give you a tiny taste of what is in store for you: You are an individual who has become the site for the realization of limpid clearness and consummate perspicacity ... The main body is about pure awareness, encountered in the experience of Being by means of meditation involving pleasure, radiance, and non-dividedness. As sheer lucency, a pristine cognitiveness, defying any propositions about it; it rises in naturalness and togetherness.
I invite you to read each word; each word is most important; the message comes easy to the expansive mind.
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Title: Words of My Perfect Teacher, Revised Edition by Patrul Rinpoche ISBN: 1570624127 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Calm and Clear by Keith. Dowman, Lama Mipham ISBN: 091354602X Publisher: Dharma Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Secret of the Vajra World : The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet by Reginald A. Ray ISBN: 157062917X Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 23 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield ISBN: 0195093364 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche ISBN: 1573222062 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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