The Heart of Chö: Volume One - Chö Foundations - Paperback

by Chöying Khandro (Author)

"The goal of this path is to become both completely human and completely Buddha, to awaken to both simultaneously. Chö practice can do that."

Chö (often transliterated as Chöd) is a profound Buddhist practice oriented toward cutting through the self-centered distortions of our ego-consciousness. It offers a complete path for realizing awakening in a single lifetime.

In this volume, the first of the Heart of Chö series, the author, Chöying Khandro, situates Chö within the larger framework of the entire Buddhist path, particularly Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. She offers warm guidance and sharp insights gained from her decades of practice and study under some of the foremost Tibetan masters of the 20th Century. Those include her root guru, His Holiness the Ninth Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche (1933-2012), from whom she received the full transmission of both the Ganden Ear-Whispered and Machik Ḍākinī Ear-Whispered lineages of Chö. Throughout these pages, Khandro-la strongly encourages us to integrate these teachings and practices into our embodied experience, bridging the gap between our spiritual journey and our human lives. This is a process of uncovering our own authenticity, of meeting again the Great Mother who never left us, which is our own true nature.