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# A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Thupten Jinpa's A Fearless Heart is a Great Read for All
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017*

Review of Thupten Jinpa’s A Fearless HeartBy Mary E. Latela, M.DivIf you’ve ever viewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving a lesson on Buddhism, compassion, or science, you have seen Thupten Jinpa, his closest translator, nearby. Sometimes there are phrases which the Dalai Lama does not understand, and Mr. Jinpa takes the phrase apart or translates into Tibetan, and the inevitable “Aha!” moment comes. For many years Thupten Jinpa was a Buddhist monk, becoming a professor, and also an expert on the intersection of the sciences and contemplative knowledge. He recently helped to create a vibrant program on Compassionate Cultivation Training at Stanford University.The discussion of his difficult decision to leave the monastery enables the reader to understand the anxiety in returning to the lay community, because he really wanted to have a family.  Descriptions of his discomfort in telling his parents, and even the Dalai Lama, are heartwarming. Here is a down-to-earth and helpful lesson for those who must leave the service to humanity to become a single person in the real world, including to get a job.  The author earned a Ph.D in World Religions and became a professor. He met his life partner, they married, and now are raising their two daughters.Mr. Jinpa realized that a certain area was particularly difficult for himself, and – it turns out – for many others. The chapter “May I Be Happy?” addresses the exhaustion of people doing good work and forgetting to take care of themselves, leading to emotional harm and even burnout. The author and his students worked through the two pronged essence of compassion – cultivating compassion for ourselves and cultivating loving-kindness toward others. He helped to create a vibrant program on Compassionate Cultivation Training at Stanford University.The discussion of his difficult decision to leave the monastery enables the reader to understand the anxiety in returning to the lay community, because he really wanted to have a family.  Descriptions of his discomfort in telling his parents, and even the Dalai Lama, are heartwarming. This is a down-to-earth and helpful lesson for those who must leave their service to humanity to become a single person in the real world, including to get a job.  The author earned a Ph.D in World Religions and became a professor. He met his life partner, they married, and now are raising their two daughters.The book is a delight to read; the writing is clear and rich. The many short exercises and the true-to-life illustrations of real people make reading very fruitful.  This is a must-read book. I recommend it to my many colleagues in service to humanity, and to all who wish to experience a fuller life, wherever they are on their life journey.(ccare.stanford.edu/tibetclassics.org)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Clear Roadmap to an Engaged Life--More than 5 Stars!!!
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015*

Can a book have more than 5 stars?  I am so grateful to Dr. Thupten Jinpa for this clear, elegant and life-changing book, A Fearless Heart:  How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives.  My daughter, immersed in a course on Asian philosophy, told me that she thought she could sum up Confucian thought in one phrase:  Be excellent to each other.  Yes!  I replied But, how?Thankfully, A Fearless Heart provides a roadmap to answer that question for the modern age.  Based on his extraordinary background as a leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and psychology, decades of translating the teaching of the Dalai Lama, and a student of emerging neuroscience, Dr. Thupten Jinpa gracefully distills these learnings into an understandable and actionable guide to embodying the “universal secular ethics” His Holiness espouses.  The gentleness of his writing is itself a testament to the value of his instruction.A Fearless Heart already has changed my mind, my heart—and perhaps in the long run most importantly—my practice.  As he advises, I am setting my intention for the day and, with this guidance, have a much clearer idea how to implement a life more compassionate to others and to myself.This book both respects and transcends our respective beliefs. I am recommending this book to everyone I know who is in search of ways to live a more fully engaged and human life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Awakening the Heart of Humanity.
  

*by L***I on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2015*

A Fearless Heart, How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives is a timely and needed pointer for awakening the Heart of humanity.  It offers a direct and individual experience of finding the One that is universal within us all, and through this a direct path through suffering for our self as well as others.  It opens the door to happiness and kindness as a life direction and through the research at Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism and Education Research (CCARE) supports the lived understanding  that Compassion is the path to peace within as well as peace experienced without.  Thupten Jinpa makes it very clear that the way out of suffering within our life as well as in the greater world is living with the great happiness that compassion brings to each of us individually and the importance of this for health and wellbeing in our interactions with others.  As the world becomes more violent this book shows the way to lived 'Peace' for our life, for our families, and the regeneration of our fragile Earth. .

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