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

Jack Kornfield (Author)
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Starred Review. Author, psychologist and pioneering Buddhist teacher Kornfield writes his best book yet (and his previous ones were pretty good). His newest uses the same sweet narrative voice, provides convincing and illustrative anecdotes and stories, and reaches into world traditions and literature as well as contemporary scientific research. This book offers a systematic and well-organized view of Buddhist psychology, complete with occasional diagrams. Concepts and practices are placed in a framework that explains and connects them. It's all done with an eye toward application; most chapters end with exercises. Kornfield has been practicing Buddhism for close to 40 years, a lasting discipline that has produced this masterful book and a seasoned view of life that acknowledges a lot of oopses. As a mediator and psychologist, he has also witnessed some serious angst, including his own, and draws on it for illustrative power. Not everything here is new, least of all the title, but then the Buddha isn't either. The best is left for last: joy you can seek for yourself and others. Just keep your meditative seat, and this book by your bed. Kornfield comes across as the therapist you wish you'd had. (Apr. 29)
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“I love this gentle, brilliant, and incisive book. I read it slowly, with amazement at its richness and wisdom, relief at feeling so understood, pleasure in Kornfield’s beautiful writing and sweet humor, and gratitude that such understanding has been expressed in the written word. This Wise Heart changed me.” —Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Grace (Eventually)

“What an extraordinary mind is Jack Kornfield’s. Curious by nature and brightly shining from birth, tempered by suffering, both personal and worldly, it guides us, in this profound and useful book, on a journey of consciousness unfamiliar to most of us born in the West. The Wise Heart is one of those books, more than a book, more like a companion, that encourages our bravery to meet whatever confronts us in life with a caring and tranquil heart. It is a transformative gift from one of the great spiritual teachers of our time.”—Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

“The Wise Heart is Jack Kornfield at his most wonderful and illuminating. He brings to life a way to understand and cultivate mindfulness, compassion, lovingkindness and true wisdom that penetrates to the core of what liberation is all about.”—Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses and Arriving at Your Own Door

“The Wise Heart offers more than remedies—it points the way to a life of flourishing.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence

"This masterpiece of a dedicated life’s work unveils the principles of an ancient ‘science of mind’ that are woven seamlessly into a wondrous map of the human heart—one that is astonishingly consistent with the discoveries of modern neuroscience.”—Daniel Siegel, M.D., author of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain

"Warm, funny, moving, and tremendously inspiring, The Wise Heart brings Buddhist psychology to life. Reading it is, in itself, a transformational experience.” —Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Psychotherapy without the Self

“Jack Kornfield harvests a lifetime of experiences to create a masterful, clear, and moving picture of the human mind and heart, a picture whose hopeful healing power I find astounding.”—Norman Fischer, former abbot, San Francisco Zen Center; author of Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Your Spiritual Journey

“Through clear teaching and wonderful storytelling, Jack Kornfield inspires us to realize and embody the love, presence and freedom that is our very essence.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

"One of today's most compeling and inspiring guides to spiritual growth."—Science of Mind

“His best book yet…. Kornfield comes across as the therapist you wish you’d had…. Provides convincing and illustrative anecdotes and stories, and reaches into world traditions and literature as well as contemporary scientific research.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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5.0 out of 5 stars Applying the Buddha's Teachings in every day life., May 20 2008
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This review is from: The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology (Hardcover)
I am just coming to the end of The Wise Heart and find myself savouring the last few pages. Thoughts are arising already even before I finish the book that I am going to go through it again to find and flag all the bits and pieces that spoke to me.
What a fabulous heart-warming, tender, loving book.
Coincidentally, I am just coming to the end of a 10-week Dharma in Everyday Life at my Zen centre - it seemed that each week, the pages I would read in the Wise Heart reiterated the words my teacher would speak in her Tuesday evening lecture.
A friend is waiting for me to finish the book, so that she can read it too. Great attachment arising!!! Will I lend it or not? More to be revealed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the heart's widdom, Mar 29 2009
This review is from: The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful book. it has so much wisdom it seems almost oracular to me when i need to orient myself. A wonderful companion on the journey of life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best I've read on Insight Meditation, Oct 31 2011
This review is from: The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology (Paperback)
I got an enormous amount from this book. I've read many books on Buddhism and am a practising meditator. This book took me further than any of the books I had read on Insight Meditation (Vipassana). It is a serious book which teaches, guides and inspires.
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