The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
About This Book
Kornfield presents the Abhidharma — Buddhist psychology — in an accessible, comprehensive form, showing how its 2,500-year-old insights map directly onto the findings of modern psychology. The book covers consciousness, mental factors, the nature of suffering, the path to liberation, and the specific practices — loving-kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness — that Buddhist psychology prescribes for each type of mental suffering.
What You'll Learn
Buddhist psychology offers one of the most detailed maps of mental states ever developed — 52 mental factors describing the full range of human consciousness from the most contracted to the most liberated. The wise heart is not a sentimental one but one that sees clearly — both the mechanisms of suffering and the path out. Loving-kindness practice changes the structure of consciousness, not merely the mood.
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