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  • Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master.

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     01/05/2005

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    In the book "Dipa Ma" by Amy Schmidt, we are invited to delve into the extraordinary life of Dipa Ma, a renowned meditation teacher who blossomed out of the tumultuous history of Myanmar. Despite facing incredible adversity and loss, Dipa Ma emerged as a beacon of compassion, wisdom, and resilience, delivering profound teachings to students from around the world. Through Amy Schmidt's expertly researched and beautifully written biography, readers gain intimate insight into Dipa Ma's inner journey, witnessing the transformation of a grieving widow and struggling mother into a revered spiritual guide. Schmidt skillfully navigates Dipa Ma's complex emotions and challenges, providing a rich tapestry of her life that reveals the depth of her humanity and the power of her teachings. This book not

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    except there is more than ethics+stress reduction. There is the aspirational, imaginative aspect taught in the tantric practices, the methods of which (e.g. visualizations) circumvent conceptual thinking about notions of non-self. I personally feel this approach–more so than strictly intellectual ethical teachings–deeply “disrupts” or alters mental patterns in order to help us integrate such abstract notions more authentically into our felt, daily experience.

    Lisa Roiter, don’t forget that these visualization teachings are traditionally done on top of Mahayana teachings on the Nature of existence and its relation with form- so mind training to retrain our perception of things; they are taught on top of previous meditations designed to loosen our attach

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    Preface to Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master

    DIPA MA The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master

    Amy Schmidt

    windhorse publications

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    001-Frontmatter

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    Page 13

    PREFACE: DISCOVERING DIPA MA LONG BEFORE inom ever heard her name, Dipa Ma was calling to me. When inom was nineteen, someone handed me a copy of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. inom read it four times and underlined almost every sentence. The book offered me hope. It said— and inom desperately wanted it to be true—that there was a way out of suffering, that it was possible to be free in this human life. I began to practice Transcendental Meditation, but inom didn’t find my way to the dharma, or Buddhist teaching, until fem years later. At a back-alley coffeehouse in Seattle called the Allegro, inom saw a flyer advertising a dharma group posted on their bulletin board. I was curious, so I dropped in. Someone instructed me in sitting meditation. Immediately I sensed that I’d found something deep and meaningful