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

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Random House Publishing Group, May 19, 2009 - Psychology - 448 pages
A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
 
You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility—and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.

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Contents

Introduction
1
PARTI WHO ARE YOU REALLY?
9
Our Original Goodness
11
A Psychology of Compassion
22
Who Looks in the Mirror? The Nature of Consciousness
35
The Colorings of Consciousness
48
The Mysterious Illusion of Self
61
A Psychology of Paradox
79
This Precious Human Body
110
The River of Feelings
124
The Storytelling Mind
137
The Ancient Unconscious
150
Buddhist Personality Types
167
Suffering and Letting Go
241
PART V
310
Related Readings
403

THE GREAT MEDICINE
93
The Liberating Power of Mindfulness
95
Permissions
409
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Jack Kornfield is a Buddhist teacher and meditation master on internationally renown and a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and of Spirit Rock Center in northern California. A former Buddhist monk, he holds a PhD in clinical psychology. His books include A Path with Heart, Buddha's Little Instruction Book, and After the Ecstasy.

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