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In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das explained the foundations of Buddhism and illuminated the Dharma path for Western readers. In his follow-up book, Awakening to the Sacred, he showed how to create a daily spiritual practice. While his first two books centered on developing an inner spiritual life, in AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART shows listeners how to find a sacred dimension inside our relationships with ourselves while others by actively taking our spiritual life out in to the world. A more mainstream complement to his previous, AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART shows how to build up a "spiritual intelligence" that reflects our relationships with each and every living thing around us.
By applying the precepts of Tibetan Buddhism into our Western lives, we can learn how for taking our spiritual practice out in to the world, and into our family and community life. As humans, no matter how devout, we have to feel loved, to feel connected to one another as well as connected to a spiritual practice, and the grade of our individual lives is vastly determined by the grade of our relationships. As Surya Das writes, everyone has room for improvement, be it in their relationships with coworkers, friends, family, pets, the natural world, the community, everything and everyone—each relationship is important and essential for spiritual growth and development.
Buddhism tells us that all in our bonds are sacred and sometimes our adversaries end up being our greatest teachers. Surya Das teaches how to study from those we love, as well as those we don't love, and how to let go of negative emotions while developing and expanding a spiritual intelligence. By providing specific exercises, meditations, and prayers to share spiritual energy with mates, children, friends, as well as strangers, and illustrated with modern Western situations that reflect Buddhist teachings, AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART shows how by developing our spiritual intelligence we will get and nurture the sacred in all our relationships.
