num_pages: 176
description: The radical message of the Heart S tra one of Buddhism's most famous texts is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles the world as we know it even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existencehence the title of this book. Overcoming fear the Buddha teaches is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fearincluding ourselves. In this book of teachings Karl Brunnhlzl guides practitioners through this 'crazy' sutra to the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.
language: English
title: The Heart Attack Sutra
publisher: Snow Lion Publications