The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

The Wise Heart A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

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.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great ~ Kornfield's best yet
I believe I've read much of what Jack Kornfield has written over the years, listened to countless discourses, seen him on video, and this is his best: The best of modern psychology and lasting Buddhism (but it's not about being Buddhist).

It's almost like a novel because it flows with stories, including his own so that we know that there is no enlightened retirement. Still, enlightened or not, we work to better ourselves, to heal ourselves, on all levels.

He's a great story teller, which I find is one of the best ways to learn.

This book will be on my shelf a long time.

5 Stars The best
This is perhaps the most valuable book in the field of spirituality and philosophy that I have ever read. Very useful in the practice of achieving happiness. I have gifted eight copies already. RW

5 Stars Wonderful presentation of Buddhist Psychology
I enjoyed this book immensely and have implemented some of the processes and ideas presented. It has brought me great peace and mindfulness. I have also enjoyed other books by this author.

5 Stars A Very Practical and Comfortable Blend re. Buddhism and Western Psychology
This can be used as a gentle self care and teaching manual re. learning how to live peacefully with the world and each person in it. Thank you Jack for your love and care for all souls living at this time in history. C.Friederich

5 Stars Slow but meet thier minimum committments
The vendor for this book did everything when they had to. My experience with buying online through Amazon has been performance that exceeds the minimum.

My fault for not looking more carefully at minimum performance guaranttees.

When I buy a book via carrier, I want it soon. I have made two subsequent orders on Amazon all of them have arrived, and still I wait for the "Wise Heart."

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