Jack Kornfield Livres

La méditation vous attire, mais vous êtes perdu face à la profusion de titres qui s’offrent à vous ? Laissez Jack Kornfield vous dévoiler les bases de la méditation et vous guider pas à pas vers son exercice quotidien. En vous apprenant à respirer, à vous tenir et à adopter le bon état d’esprit, ce cours complet vous fait découvrir les rudiments d’une discipline qui vous reliera autrement à vos émotions, développera votre bienveillance envers les autres et vous-même et vous permettra d’atteindre la sérénité et le bonheur.

A 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.

An invitation to explore a transformative journey awaits, offering insights and experiences that challenge conventional thinking. This book encourages readers to embrace new perspectives, fostering personal growth and self-discovery. Through engaging narratives and thought-provoking concepts, it invites a deeper understanding of oneself and the world, making it a compelling read for those seeking inspiration and change in their lives.

This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the enlightened mind, and songs in praise of meditation by Zen teachers. The book also includes traditional instruction on how to practice sitting meditation, cultivate calm awareness, and live with compassion. Jack Kornfield, one of the most respected American Buddhist teachers, has compiled these teachings to impart the essence and inspiration of Buddhism to readers of all spiritual traditions.

Where can we find illumination and support when we most need it? Inside each of us is an inner light that I call The One Who Knows, writes Jack Kornfield. Awakening to this wisdom can help us find our way through pain and suffering with courage, grace, and tenderness. For anyone seeking answers during a time of trial or confusion, he now offers A Lamp in the Darkness, a new book-and-CD program filled with spiritual and psychological insights, hope-giving stories, and special guided meditations to skillfully navigate life s inevitable storms. With deep understanding and compassionate warmth, Jack Kornfield illuminates a safe and sane pathway through difficulty, as we explore practices created for times of crisis but applicable and useful throughout our daily lives: • Equanimity and Peace how to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and ourselves in balance while seeing the great peace behind it all• Forgiveness for releasing the past and breaking down barriers to all that is closed in the heart• Setting Your Highest Intention a guide for awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spiritHard times come to everyone. With A Lamp in the Darkness, we have a trusted guide and friend with whom we can face the road ahead in presence, love, and openness.

Jack Kornfield had gathered together the Buddha's best and most beautiful words and those of his countless disciples to create an enlightening, accessible and practical companion for those in search of the Buddha's path of happiness.

Share love with yourself, your people, and the world (alongside fun sloths) in this big-hearted bedtime meditation for children. As the day comes to a close, Goodnight Love helps children (ages 2–5) connect to the warmth of their hearts through the power of lovingkindness. We foster self-compassion by sending care to ourselves. We share kindness by wishing good things for our families and friends. And we cultivate unconditional love by radiating the wish for happiness and peace on Earth. Goodnight Love brings the heart-based practice of lovingkindness (metta) into the ritual of bedtime, with adorable sloth characters that kids will delight in practicing beside. The beautiful, richly colored art portrays a caregiver sloth guiding a young sloth through this relaxing evening meditation, helping children slip into slumber with a heart filled with kindness.

“This important guidebook shows in detail and with great humor and insight the way to practice the Buddha’s universal teachings here in the West. Jack Kornfield is a wonderful storyteller and a great teacher.”—Thich Nhat Hanh “Jack is helping to pave the path for American Buddhism, bringing essential basics into our crazy modern lives. And the language he uses is as simple and as lovely as our breath.”—Natalie Goldberg Perhaps the most important book yet written on meditation, the process of inner transformation, and the integration of spiritual practice into our American way of life, A Path with Heart brings alive one by one the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world. Written by a teacher, psychologist, and meditation master of international renown, this warm, inspiring, and expert book touches on a wide range of essential issues including many rarely addressed in spiritual books. From compassion, addiction, and psychological and emotional healing, to dealing with problems involving relationships and sexuality, to the creation of a Zen-like simplicity and balance in all facets of life, it speaks to the concerns of many modern spiritual seekers, both those beginning on the path and those with years of experience. A Path with Heart is filled with practical techniques, guided meditations, stories, koans, and other gems of wisdom that can help ease your journey through the world. The author’s own profound—and sometimes humorous—experiences and gentle assistance will skillfully guide you through the obstacles and trials of spiritual and contemporary life to bring a clarity of perception and a sense of the sacred into your everyday experience. Reading this book will touch your heart and remind you of the promises inherent in meditation and in a life of the spirit: the blossoming of inner peace, wholeness, and understanding, and the achievement of a happiness that is not dependent on external conditions. Sure to be a classic, A Path with Heart shows us how we can bring our spirituality to flower every day of our lives. It is a wise and gentle guidebook for an odyssey into the soul that enables us to achieve a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.

Covers hindrances to meditation, the need for compassion, reconciliation between responsible action and a life of nonattachment, and the law of karma

“The Buddha’s teachings are not a philosophy or a religion; they are a call to action and invitation to revolution.” Noah Levine, author of the national bestseller Dharma Punx and Against the Stream , is the leader of the youth movement for a new American Buddhism. In Heart of the Revolution , he offers a set of reflections, tools, and teachings to help readers unlock their own sense of empathy and compassion. Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within , declares Levins to be "in the fore among Young Buddhas of America, a rebel with both a good cause and the noble heart and spiritual awareness to prove it,” saying, “I highly recommend this book to those who want to join us on this joyful path of mindfulness and awakening."