fac supportive materials
Awakening Through Love Set
- Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
John Makransky (Wisdom Publications, 2007) 
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- Awakening Through Love Guided Meditations
mp3 File - Downloadable
Led by Lama John Makransky
Downloadable mp3 file - $14.95 US 
- On this downloadable mp3 file (comparable to 2 CDs) Lama John Makransky orally guides his meditations of Natural Wisdom, Love and Compassion on six meditation tracks. These meditations are suitable both for beginners and for experienced meditators who are deepening in the heart of awakening. Further explanation of the practice appears in Lama John's book, Awakening through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness, and in workshops and retreats where he teaches.
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Articles & Essays
John Makransky
- Compassion Beyond Fatigue: Contemplative Training for People Who Serve Others
- Accessing Our Best Inner Resources for Social Service and Action: Reasons to Train in Meditations of Natural Wisdom and Compassion
- Guided Meditations of Natural Wisdom and Love by Lama John
- Love Is All Around: Recognizing the Unconditional Love in Our Lives - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Fall 2007)
- No Real Protection Without Authentic Love - Journal of Buddhist Ethics (Vol 12, 2005)
- A Contemporary Buddhist Teaching of Spiritual Practice - Presented to the Association of Practice Theology, American Academy of Religion (2007)
- Family Life As Practice - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (2001)
- Parenting As Path - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (2001)
Audio/Video
John Makransky
- Identifying Benefactors and Receiving Love: Guided Meditation - First meditation on the 2-CD set of guided meditations that accompanies Awakening Through Love (audio: approx. 14 mins)
- Becoming Transparent to the Power of Wisdom and Love: Guided Meditation and Teaching - March 30, 2008 - (audio: approx. 26 mins)
- Offering Everything to Your True Nature: Guided Meditation and Teaching - April 4, 2008 - (audio: approx. 36 mins)
- Comments on Offering Practice - March 30, 2008 - (audio: approx. 11 mins)
- Teaching: May 26, 2007 - Excerpt from a retreat talk at Dzogchen Center (audio: approx. 3 mins)
- Discussion: October 3, 2007 - Discussion regarding book Awakening Through Love, sponsored by the Comparative Religions section of the Theology department at Boston College (audio/video: approx. 1.5 hrs)