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“A Path With Heart: The classic guide through the perils and promises of spiritual life” Jack Kornfield Rider, Random House, London, 2002. (Revised edition, first published 1993) ISBN 0-7126-5780-0 Paperback. School/perspective: Theravada Buddhist practice and Vipassana meditation. A Path with Heart Counseling 505.266.8168 920 Cardenas Drive NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108.
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In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart. Since 1974 (long before it gained popularity in the 1990s), Jack has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Jack offers this guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion.
Part of what makes this book so accessible is Jack’s use of everyday metaphors to describe the elusive lessons of spiritual transformation. For example, he opens with “the one seat” lesson taught to him by his esteemed teacher. Literally it means sitting in the center of a room and not being swayed or moved by all the people and dramas happening around you. On a spiritual level it means sticking “with one practice and teacher among all of the possibilities,” he writes; “inwardly it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.” The same could be said for this “one book.” Among all the spiritual self-help books, this is a classic worth sticking with and returning to–a highly approachable teacher that can only lead to greater clarity and understanding.
–Gail Hudson