The Wise Heart

A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

Hardcover, 432 pages

English language

Published April 29, 2008 by Bantam.

ISBN:
978-0-553-80347-1
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OCLC Number:
212375664

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You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom--and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism's transformational psychology ever published in the West.Trained as a monk in Thailand, Burma, and India, Jack Kornfield experienced at first hand the life-changing power of Buddhist teachings: the emphasis on the nobility and sacredness of the human spirit, the fine-grained analysis of emotion and thought, the precise techniques for healing, training, and transforming the mind and heart. In contrast to the medical orientation of most Western psychology and psychiatry, here is a vision of radiant human dignity, and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.The Wise Heart is the fruit of a life's work that includes such classics as A Path …

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Subjects

  • General
  • Psychology & Psychiatry / General
  • Psychology