The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist PsychologyA 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. |
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 |
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The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology Jack Kornfield Limited preview - 2008 |
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology Jack Kornfield No preview available - 2009 |
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology Jack Kornfield No preview available - 2008 |
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