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.

Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, Jack Kornfield, Bantam, Paperback, 2008, 448 pages

Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught around the world since 1974. He also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of the Spirit Rock Center. He lives in northern California with his wife and daughter. His previous books include A Path with Heart, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (with Joseph Goldstein), and Teachings of the Buddha.

	Contents: The WISE HEART
	Introduction	1
	PART I. WHO ARE YOU REALLY?
1.	Nobility: Our Original Goodness	11
2.	Holding the World in Kindness: A Psychology of Compassion	22
3.	Who Looks in the Mirror? The Nature of Consciousness	35
4.	The Colorings of Consciousnness	48
5.	The Mysterious Illusion of Self	61
6.	From the Universal to the Personal: A Psychology of Paradox	79
	PART II. MINDFULNESS: THE GREAT MEDICINE
7.	The Liberating Power of Mindfulness	95
8.	This Precious Human Body	110
9.	The River of Feelings	124
10.	The Storytelling Mind	137
11.	The Ancient Unconscious	150
	PART III. TRANSFORMING THE ROOTS OF SUFFERING
12.	Buddhist Personality Types	167
13.	The Transformaiton of Desire into Abundance	184
14.	Beyond Hatred to a Non-Contentious Heart	205
15.	From Delusion to Wisdom: Awakening from the Dream	222
	PART IV: FINDING FREEDOM
16.	Suffering and Letting Go	241
17.	The Compass of the Heart: Intention and Karma	257
18.	Sacred Vision: Imagination, Ritual, and Refuge	274
19.	Behaviorism with Heart: Buddhist Cognitive Training	293
20.	Concentration and the Mystical Dimensions of Mind	308
	PART V. EMBODYING THE WISE HEART
21.	A Psychology of Virtue, Redemption, and Forgiveness	331
22.	The Bodhisattva: Tending the World	352
23.	The Wisdom of the Middle Way	367
24.	The Awakened Heart	382
	Related Readings	403
	Permissions	409
	Acknowledgments	441
	Index	413