Description
The book is a transliteration of an important Dharma text, comprising a complete training of the mind in seven points (chapters, rules). This book is a concise teaching given in the form of personal advice by Geshe Rabten in Dharamsala (India) in 1973, which fully describes the method of developing Bodhicitta (awakening mind) by gradually initiating us into the vision of enlightened beings.
This advice, drawn from the personal practice of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters, reveals clearly and with astonishing accuracy where all our individual and collective trials and conflicts, in fact all our evils, come from; but it also shows us how to overcome them with recklessness. „Overcoming selfishness” provides us with the most effective and ingenious way to overcome selfishness altogether.
Applied to our mind, these instructions will be extremely helpful. We are all, every moment of every day, going through difficult experiences which have at their root nothing other than selfishness, self-love. Of all the remedies, these instructions are the most effective in extirpating what is at the root of all our problems, and that is why they are being taught.
May this method help us overcome our selfishness! See a Preview of the book.
„What is there in us that causes permanent suffering? It is self-esteem and carelessness or contempt for others. This is the cause of all conflicts, of wars between peoples, of quarrels in the family, and even of fights between insects. Without self-esteem, none of these problems would exist.
A person who thinks only of himself is like a person whose whole body is covered with wounds. Wherever such a person goes and whatever such a person does, wounds will always make him feel uncomfortable. In the same way, we will never be happy as long as our conscience is driven by self-cherishing: even in pleasant situations, a mischievous greed for something else will separate us from any lasting happiness and calm.”
(Geshe Rabten Rinpoche)
Rabten Geese Rinpoche succeeded in bringing the essence of Buddha's thoughts closer to the listeners. Whether 
Whether the listener was from the West or from the East, anyone who followed his words felt all the vagueness disappear, and his place taken by a clarity and calmness of mind. His examples encouraged people to adopt a sincere way of acting. Whatever he explained, he gave the disciple the feeling that he was hearing a description of the past or the future, or their innermost secrets, as if all these were in the palm of his hand.
Gheșe founded the Rabten Choeling Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies (originally Tharpa Choeling) near Lake Geneva, the Tibetan Centre in Hamburg, the Tashi Rabten Centre in Letzehof, the Puntsog Rabten Centre in Munich, and the Gephel Ling Centre in Milan.
