One Breath at a Time: 108 Timeless Teachings of Wisdom

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Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rajiv Mehrotra Category: Buddhism, Religion/Philosophy ISBN: 9789366114156 Binding: Hardback Dimensions: 178x127 Number of Pages: 312 pages

One Breath at a Time distils 108 of the Dalai Lama’s teachings, an auspicious number in Buddhist tradition that marks the journey from delusion to awakening. Each is followed by a poetic reflection and a brief meditation by a close disciple, inviting the reader to move from understanding to experience, from thought to transformation.
The book unfolds like a quiet pilgrimage: Beginning with mindfulness, deepening into compassion and wisdom, and opening finally into a way of living guided by a moral compass. It may be opened anywhere for daily reflection or followed as a continuous path of practice.
This tender and radiant volume invites readers of every background to inhabit the Dalai Lama’s wisdom in the simplest of ways, to pause, to breathe, and to meet the world with steadiness and care, one breath at a time.

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In this luminous collection, offered as a celebration of the Dalai Lama’s ninetieth birthday, his essential teachings are distilled, each a crafted and authentic doorway to transformation—gentle yet profound,vclear yet mysterious, accessible yet pointing towards depths that require a lifetime to fathom.

This is not a book about Buddhism but about being human.
Not about belief but about investigation. 
Not about escaping the world but about engaging it 
with wisdom and compassion, one breath at a time.

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True transformation is not about adding something new but removing the obscurations hiding our innate qualities. Like clearing clouds to reveal the sun, we work to clear away our mental afflictions to reveal our fundamental goodness.
The Dalai Lama

Not in becoming but in its unveiling. The masterpiece exists beneath the dust, the pure spring beneath the silt, the clear sky behind storm clouds. We are not empty vessels, waiting to be filled, but buried treasures waiting to be found.
Rajiv Mehrotra