Buddhist Dzogchen: Being Happiness Itself

In David Paul Boaz Dechen Wangdu offers an original, vivid, compassionate, and humorous understanding of our human condition. His scope and subtle wisdom depth are profound. He draws upon his theoretical and contemplative training to reveal the actual cause of human fear, anger and alienation—as well as the primary cause of human happiness as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Dzogchen is often considered the highest, most direct Buddhist teaching path, though it requires real preparation. The author clarifies in a practical way how to use Buddhist love and wisdom, with a little Western psychology, to realize both relative and ultimate happiness in our busy lives, not in an idealized future mind state, but here and now. Let this book be a mindful guide to exploration of your own original mind nature. This remarkable book strikes a fine balance between "Our two human intelligence dimensions—objective conceptual thought, and subjective spiritual experience..."Knowing the "prior unity" of these two is the "open secret of human happiness". Learn through unifying both conceptual and contemplative practice to "Translate your innate selfless love-wisdom mind into skillful, compassionate action to benefit living beings". Engage here such diverse themes as Nondual God in Christianity and Buddhism; Mindful Breathing: Conscious Finite Portal Into Infinite Reality Itself; Quantum Nonlocality and Buddhist Emptiness; Dzogchen Panpsychism: East Meets West; The Four Interdependent Dimensions of the Human Mind; and Understanding Human Cognitive Bias. Dechen Wangdu has devoted his life to the study, practice and teaching of Buddhist wisdom. He is Founding Director of tax exempt Buddhist Temple and Research Institute. He has a doctorate in Religious Studies and has taught philosophy and religion for forty years. He is author of five books and over one hundred articles and essays.