Shanjian Dashi

The Great Compassion Mantra: the Path of Serenity and Understanding: a Practical Guide to Love and Equanimity Shanjian Dashi

Publisher Marketing: The Great Compassion Mantra of Natural Wisdom is a powerful Mantra developed by Mahayana Buddhists. This Mantra is said to have the power to liberate all sentient creatures from the Hell of Suffering, delivering them from Ignorance. In this third and final volume in the series, Master Shanjian Dashi explores the Ten Heart Attributes of the Buddha Nature and gives detailed instruction on the practice of Mindfulness that complements the chanting of the Great Mantra. The Great Compassion Mantra is a verbal form of Dharana, a Sutra which uses syllables to transmit a powerful and effective transcendental message, creating a special state of consciousness. The transcendental message and the special state of consciousness set the conditions necessary for major changes in Attitudes, Intentions, and Actions. This awakens Benevolent Love, Compassion, and Gladness, engenders the Liberation of Wisdom, and facilitates the elimination of Suffering and Stress. The Mantra and the Commentary provide then the knowledge which leads to personal growth and the firm establishment of Wisdom, and can therefore be used to completely change the focus of one's own life or the lives of others who are open and receptive to what we can call Cosmic Consciousness. Contributor Bio:  Dashi, Shanjian Shanjian Dashi was born in England, trained as a psychologist and biologist in California, and did research with Leon Festinger at the New York School for Social Research. After rejecting the ways of our Western consumer society, and prompted by his discovery of Dharma teachings that confirmed his scientific findings on visual perception, he encountered his guides Nyanaponika Thera and Narada Maha Thera in Sri Lanka. It was there that Nyanaponika Thera persuaded him of the importance of deeply understanding Right Attention and Right Energy and Narada Maha Thera showed him the essence of Abhidharma, with the idea that, whereas modern psychology could explain perfectly well with cognitive intelligence why the mind works as it does, Buddha Dharma could show how to find the truth through direct experience -a confluence that was absolutely essential for the new world. After fifteen years as a Theravadin, as an arahat unawakened to the Primordial State, Shanjian sought without expectations and received Chan transmission in Kunming (China), after which he reintegrated the Five Houses of Chan along with Zongmi's Huayan model. For thirty years he has taught all the basic Dharma paths at the Mahabodhi Sunyata Seminary in Spain, stressing the transcendental unity underlying the manifold Dharma practices available for all beings: a unified Buddhism without dogmas, ceremonies, or rituals, with emphasis on the depth of all teachings from the simplicity of Chan to the magnificence of Vajrayana, without compromises, without separating apparently different paths, and without straying from the true Dharma spirit.