false 39184957 176 1920089 0553803476 9780553803471 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1920089.The_Wise_Heart_A_Guide_to_the_Universal_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Psychology 4.43 120 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.]]> 59705 4.16 1306 201 3 0 false Wed Dec 03 06:21:12 -0800 2008 Tue May 19 01:44:57 -0700 2009