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Buddha's Heart

Meditation Practice for Developing Well-Being, Love, and Empathy

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An inspiring and healing guide to immersive meditation in the ancient Buddhist heart practices — the bhamaviharas. Informed by Jhana Master and Zen Master Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi's experiential understanding and suitable for those at any level of meditation practice, Buddha's Heart leads us step-by-step through the heart-opening meditations on equanimity, empathetic joy, compassion, and loving-kindness (unconditioned love).

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the buddhist teachings and practices shared here are wonderful, and wonderfully given. i particularly enjoy the chapter on the absolute, thus relating it directly to the heart practices, and find its inclusion — in a book intended for practitioners of all levels of experience – generous and inspiring. i was not so sure about the 1:1 mapping-on of unattributed (western?) psychological models of this or that early life experience as the origin of this or that kilesa (obstacle, affliction, defilement, mental poison); firstly as i wanted to know the origin or originators of these universalising models, and secondly as they are so intensely normative, according to a given model of what is normal, giving little or no account of real trauma — nor even acknowledging the absence of an address to trauma here. thus, the effect of asking people who have suffered real harms at the hands of caregivers or anyone else to practice forgiveness, for example, without even such an acknowledgement — while it may not be egregiously harmful, is at the least exclusionary, and may have the effect of producing mistrust and vigilance, however subtle, in some listeners. so really maybe not so skilful. these models also gave rise to reflections on gendered and cultural specificity; do all human-beings really experience their body as something entirely separate from every other being('s) - that is, from every'one' and every'thing' else? so i guess these are notes for a second edition — and since so much of the book is wonderful, i do hope there will be one.

wonderful buddhist teachings, applied psychological model not so sure

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