Tibetan Medicine and Mind Training

The first part of this book focuses on the relationship between body and mind from the point of view of Tibetan medicine. It describes various causes of mental illness and how they can be treated. “We are integrated not only into this short lifespan; our organisms are also connected with countless past lives.” In the words of a Tibetan religious text, “Great wisdom resides in the body, but although it lives in the body, it does not originate from there.”
The second part of the book deals with creating a center of inner calm in the mind. Tibetans call this the discovery of “our mind’s true nature.” The best way to protect oneself from mental illness is by finding a center of calm within oneself.
In addition, this book attempts to present the possibilities for mental development as they have been practiced in Buddhism for centuries. The Hevajra Tantra states that: “The entire Cosmos arises within me; the threefold world arises within me; I am in everything; this world consists of nothing else.”

About the author:
Florian Lauda was born in Vienna in 1950 and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. He has traveled extensively in India, Nepal, Tibet and Japan and has studied yoga, Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan medicine for 40 years. In 1979, he founded the “Chagpori” Society for the Advancement of Tibetan Medicine and Culture in Vienna.