Uncommon Happiness

Uncommon Happiness is Dzigar Kongtrul’s commentary on Shantideva’s eighth century text The Way of the Bodhisattva. It is also a testament to this brilliant teacher’s compassionate and compelling style, saturated with advice from an adept practitioner. Rinpoche guides us through intelligent reasoning to identify our deluded perception of a truly existing self and shows us the key to awakening from this fundamental confusion. By clarifying the essential meaning of the Buddhist path and introducing skilful methods to use along the way, he reveals our wisdom mind and challenges us to meet our intrinsic enlightened capacity.

“We must have a confidence that we. can actually abandon negative habitual patterns. The potential exists not only to renounce what is going on in our mind, but also to replace it with enlightened mind. The Dharma points us to who we really are, what we are capable of and what we can actually do with our lives and our minds. The purpose of being a genuine practitioner is to fully understand the wisdom of the Buddha’s enlightened teachings and to integrate our minds with these for the benefit of all beings.”