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  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781590307199
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $39.99

Light Comes Through

Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence



Fresh and direct Buddhist teachings on how our natural wish to be happy is the best tool we have for true spiritual growth

Buddhahood, says Dzigar Kongtrül, is nothing but an unobstructed experience of the nature of mind, boundlessly spacious and limitlessly compassionate. The trick is that in order to see the mind accurately, we must use the particular aspect of mind he calls natural intelligence.

Natural intelligence enables us to discriminate between what helps or hinders us. But most of all, it’s the part of us that searches for happiness and meaning. In Light Comes Through, he shows us how to skillfully use our wish for happiness as a tool in awakening to the joyous wisdom of mind.

“This is a wonderful fresh look at the amazing potential of our human mind.” —Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart

  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781590307199
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $39.99

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Praise for Light Comes Through

"Light Comes Through shimmers with frank advice on becoming more intelligent about our emotions. Dzigar Kongtrül offers a practical path to clarity and peace."--Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"This slender book has wisdom for practitioners of all levels. . . . There is a comforting bravery in [Kongtrül's] thinking that clarifies the differences between 'trying to arrange the world according to our preferences' and 'delighting in the way our experience naturally unfolds.' This is a suitably calm and graceful pathway illuminated by a Buddhist master."--Publishers Weekly
"This is a wonderful fresh look at the amazing potential of our human mind. In the innovative and accessible style he is famous for, Dzigar Kongtrül continues to challenge and encourage us."--Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart and Practicing Peace in Times of War
"Light Comes Through is an inspired, well-written, and creative examination of topics such as faith, romance, developing happiness for others, and facing our own suffering with perspective and compassion. It is a wonderful guidebook for living a very different kind of life."--Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness