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A Fearless Heart

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349406275

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Genre: Health & Personal Development

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‘[A] timely book on compassion and its cultivation’ The Dalai Lama

‘The bravest, cleverest and most engaging book I know on why we need to cultivate compassion’ Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘A practical toolkit for becoming a better human being’ Daniel Goleman

Self-compassion is the overlooked key to achieving our goals. It can lead to increased happiness, stress reduction, a stronger sense of purpose, better health and a longer life. Yet many of us resist compassion, worrying that if we are too compassionate with others we will be taken advantage of and if we are too compassionate with ourselves we won’t achieve our goals in life.

Using the latest science, psychology (from contemporary Western and classical Buddhist sources) as well as stories from others and his own extraordinary life, Jinpa shows us how to train our compassion muscle. His powerful programme, derived from his remarkable course in Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), is the perfect guide to achieving a greater sense of wellbeing.

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A Fearless Heart is a rare book that shows how the meeting of contemplative insights and practices with modern science can lead to offerings that are beneficial for everyone interested in deeper personal spiritual transformation. The book shows how such practices can have a positive impact in our daily lives. I applaud my long-time English translator Thupten Jinpa for writing this timely book on compassion and its cultivation
The Dalai Lama
Jinpa shows why compassion is not a given within some yet not possible for others, but rather is a quality of the heart that we can all cultivate and expand. If we do that, out lives transform, our families and relationships transform, and our world transforms
Sharon Salzberg, author of <i> Loving Kindness </i> and <i> Real Happiness </i>
Brilliantly clear and heartfelt, a potentially life-changing work offering inspiring training. A Fearless Heart is personally moving, eminently practical and visionary in scope
Jack Kornfield, author of <i> The Wise Heart </i>
I love Jinpa's sense of the practical, of bringing compassion down from the pedestal of high ideals and into the messy reality that is every day human life. A Fearless Heart may prove to be one of the most important books of these difficult times
Richard Gere
Firmly grounded in the latest scientific studies, and hugely invitational and convincing in its inspiration, its reasoning, its heartfulness and its guidance in a broad range of powerful practices, A Fearless Heart is the bravest, clearest and most engaging book I know on why we need to cultivate compassion, and on how to bring it more widely and deeply into our lives and into the world
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Founder of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and author of <i> Full Catastrophe Living </i>
Thupten Jinpa speaks from his experience as a monk turned family man, and a top-flight scholar, who draws on his remarkable background and range of knowledge to offer each one of us a practical toolkit for becoming a better human being. A Fearless Heart can help anyone nurture the compassion that lies within every heart
Daniel Goleman, author of <i> Emotional Intelligence </i>
Embracing compassion enables us to step into our own natural capacity for creativity and empathy. I highly recommend this extraordinary book and this path to anyone who sees to have more meaningful connections to people and the world
David Kelley, Founder of IDEO and co-author of <i>Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All </i>
As I read A Fearless Heart, I began picturing the possibilities that await us if we safeguard our children's natural instinct for kindness. Filled with wise insights, research and anecdotes, Jinpa lays out a path for living with compassion and acceptance, both for others, and for ourselves. An essential guide for anyone committed to creating a loving, peaceful world, but a must-read for parents, whose simple interactions with their children will lead to a quiet revolution toward a compassionate world
Susan Stiffelman, author of <i>Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids</i>
An inspirational read that not only demonstrates the power of compassion, but also reveals how kindness and self-compassion are within our reach
Kelly McGonigal, author of <i>The Upside of Stress</i> and <i>The Willpower Instinct </i>
Part autobiography, part a training manual for a wholesome life and part a beautiful tapestry woven between ancient Buddhist thought and modern science, this book has something for everyone. At its fundamental core, it makes the case for why compassion is so essential for the modern world and offers detailed helpful advice o how it can be cultivated
Richard J. Davidson, co-author of <i>The Emotional Life of Your Brian</i>; Founder, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison