The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
by: Jack Kornfield
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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 with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. Filled with stories from Kornfield’s Buddhist psychotherapy practice and portraits of remarkable teachers, it also includes a moving account of his own recovery from a violence-filled childhood. For meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, The Wise Heart offers an extraordinary journey from the roots of consciousness to the highest expression of human possibility.
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 with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. Filled with stories from Kornfield’s Buddhist psychotherapy practice and portraits of remarkable teachers, it also includes a moving account of his own recovery from a violence-filled childhood. For meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, The Wise Heart offers an extraordinary journey from the roots of consciousness to the highest expression of human possibility.
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The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
i had read a Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist Monk, book before
which was excellent.The Wise Heart far exceeded my expectations with his wise, gentle wisdom and is for anyone who aspires to open his/her heart and desires to love not only another but all the world.
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- A good book for a WISE HEART but not as much for BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
The Abhidhamma Pitaka, the third, newest and longest of the three divisions of the Pali Canon, is the original source of the theory of Buddhism as a school of psychology; the Canon is universally acknowledged as the oldest and most reliable source of Buddhist Sacred texts. This makes timing one of the problems in the development of Buddhist psychology. On one hand, Buddhism precedes psychology by over two millennia; on the other, the Abhidhamma Pitaka is dated around two hundred years after the death ... Read More
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- Very interesting
I have read several Buddhist books, and listened to countless Dharma talks, and yet I have learned things in this book that I had never heard of.For example, Buddhist texts on Lucid dreaming, past life visions, Buddhist personality types, and thoughts on the unconscious.While not all of this is relevant to me at this point, it was interesting.The book has great wisdom throughout.Maybe a little too much on the stories, that's why I didn't give 5 stars.
Rating: - Wonderfully Inspiring book
The best buddhist book I read until now! Jack Kornfield writes very nicely, if you have heard him teach you see that is comes from a profound integrity. The book has some proposals for meditations, not even what you would expect, but sometimes more for making you understand what he's trying to tell you: When teaching you shouldn't cling to a "self", he tells you to write down every half hour how strong the feeling of self was related to how well/bad/neutral your feelings were. What accompanied these and ... Read More
Rating: - I love this book!
I first borrowed this book from the library, but now I have to have it! Not only have I personally benefited from the practices recommended, but I have brought them into my psychotherapy sessions to use with clients. As a result, my sessions have quickly gone to a new depth of healing. I am so grateful!
- the wise heartThe Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
i had read a Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist Monk, book before
which was excellent.The Wise Heart far exceeded my expectations with his wise, gentle wisdom and is for anyone who aspires to open his/her heart and desires to love not only another but all the world.
- A good book for a WISE HEART but not as much for BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGYThe Abhidhamma Pitaka, the third, newest and longest of the three divisions of the Pali Canon, is the original source of the theory of Buddhism as a school of psychology; the Canon is universally acknowledged as the oldest and most reliable source of Buddhist Sacred texts. This makes timing one of the problems in the development of Buddhist psychology. On one hand, Buddhism precedes psychology by over two millennia; on the other, the Abhidhamma Pitaka is dated around two hundred years after the death ... Read More
- Very interestingI have read several Buddhist books, and listened to countless Dharma talks, and yet I have learned things in this book that I had never heard of.For example, Buddhist texts on Lucid dreaming, past life visions, Buddhist personality types, and thoughts on the unconscious.While not all of this is relevant to me at this point, it was interesting.The book has great wisdom throughout.Maybe a little too much on the stories, that's why I didn't give 5 stars.
- Wonderfully Inspiring bookThe best buddhist book I read until now! Jack Kornfield writes very nicely, if you have heard him teach you see that is comes from a profound integrity. The book has some proposals for meditations, not even what you would expect, but sometimes more for making you understand what he's trying to tell you: When teaching you shouldn't cling to a "self", he tells you to write down every half hour how strong the feeling of self was related to how well/bad/neutral your feelings were. What accompanied these and ... Read More
- I love this book!I first borrowed this book from the library, but now I have to have it! Not only have I personally benefited from the practices recommended, but I have brought them into my psychotherapy sessions to use with clients. As a result, my sessions have quickly gone to a new depth of healing. I am so grateful!
