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This Month's Pick

Surya's Book Club

Each month Lama Surya Das recommends a book for your reading pleasure and enlightenment. His pick this month is:

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology - by Jack Kornfield

The Wise Heart

Book Description:
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.

Available in:

Hardcover: 448 pages; Bantam (April 29, 2008) ISBN: 0553803476
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Previous Book Club picks:

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama - by Pico Iyer

The Open Road Hardcover: 288 pages; Knopf (March 25, 2008) ISBN: 0307267601
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Wake Up Now - by Stephan Bodian

Wake Up Now Hardcover: 224 pages; McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 17, 2007) ISBN: 0071494286
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Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chogyam Trungpa - by Jeremy Hayward

Warrior-King of Shambhala Paperback - 476 pages; Wisdom Publications (December 28, 2007) ISBN: 0861715462
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True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart - by Thich Nhat Hanh

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart Paperback - 120 pages; Shambhala; New Ed edition (September 12, 2006) ISBN: 1590304047
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Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic - by Mayank Chhaya

The Joy of Living Hardcover - 352 pages; Doubleday (March 13, 2007) ISBN: 0385519451
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The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness - by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The Joy of Living Hardcover - 288 pages; Harmony (March 6, 2007) ISBN: 0307346250
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