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The Buddha said many times that just as the great oceans have but one taste, so do all the true teachings of the dharma: the taste of freedom. Jack Kornfield's Roots of Buddhist Psychology is an invitation to drink deeply of these teachings – to taste the wisdom that flows from the heart of Buddhism's most useful ideas on the interior life, and what brings awakening, freedom, and happiness.
Among the world's great religions, Buddhism alone has developed a rich, intricate psychology based, not on metaphysics, but on the human predicament. Through its strategies you can you can find the way to true freedom. Buddhism views the mind as a labyrinth of feelings, perceptions and emotional states. Unhappiness is rooted in unskillful responses to our world: grasping when things are pleasant; aversion when they are unpleasant; and delusion/confusion when they are neutral. Through awareness training, Kornfield teaches, you can transform these responses into real skills that are the path to true happiness. This is the way to "inner stillness" – the deathless state that allows your wisdom and compassion to flow together for a state of greater knowing. Enlivened with many parables, worldly stories, and thoughts from artists, philosophers and writers, The Roots of Buddhist Psychology can help you discover for yourself that what you seek is already here.

The Roots of Buddhist Psychology Highlights:

• The purpose of Buddhist Psychology
• The Palate of Colors
• 6 senses, 6 kinds of consciousness and 52 mental qualities
• Skillful and unskillful qualities
• Turning unskillful states into root opposites
• Meditation and physical perceptions
• Grasping, resisting and delusion
• Fear and separateness
• Is their skillful anger?
• The nature of aversion
• The nature of delusion
• The psychology of entanglement
• How pleasure leads to grasping
• Delusion and the First Noble Truth
• The reflection of eternity
• Emptyness, possessions and voidness
• Meditation, psychology and Nirvana
• Psychology and liberation of the heart
• The nature of Generosity
• Abundance and the opening process
• The vows of the Bodhisattvas
• Happiness and connection
• The types of giving
• Liberation, freedom and true awakening
• The nature of non-hatred and true strength
• How we create hell
• Uncertainty vs. anxiety
• Releasing the Soul Force
• The power to be gentle
• Three qualities of true strength
• The nature of Non-delusion
• Types of delusion
• Samsara: not living in truth
• Mindfulness and causation
• The nature of Intention
• Neutral qualities of Buddhist psychology
• The Dama Pada teachings on mind as forerunner
• Buddha and the four heavenly messengers
• The limits of intention
• The nature of Compassion
• Loving kindness and attatchment
• Compassion meditation
• The nature of Sympathetic Joy
• How to be happy
• The Third Noble Truth
• Much more!

 

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