{"product_id":"the-heart-of-meditation-discovering-innermost-awareness","title":"The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness","description":"\u003cp\u003eHis Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche  author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher.  The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion for other beings is directly related toand in fact a prerequisite forthe very pinnacle of Buddhist meditation. He presents his understanding  confirmed again and again over millennia  that the cultivation of both compassion and wisdom is absolutely critical to progress in meditation and goes into great depth on how this can be accomplished.  While accessible to a beginner  he leads the reader in very fine detail on how to identify innermost awarenesswho we really arehow to maintain contact with this awareness  and how to release oneself from the endless stream of our thoughts to let this awareness  always present  become consistently apparent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964528029749,"sku":"ByrdShop_1559394536","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781559394536.jpg?v=1770464753","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-heart-of-meditation-discovering-innermost-awareness","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}