The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Kornfield
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0553381199
Dewey Decimal Number: 294
EAN: 9780553381191
ASIN: 0553381199
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Bestselling author Jack Kornfield has put together a how-to book--his most ambitious work yet--to encourage the best side of humanity. In The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace, Kornfield uses the evocative power of aphorisms to spark feelings and thoughts that can germinate and grow. After a chapter of aphorisms and quotations on each of the title's three topics, Kornfield offers a related series of meditations that show how to cultivate what the aphorisms have prepared. Whereas essays tend to be read through and forgotten, this book invites a deliberate pace, with the reader filling in the blanks, taking time away for meditation, then coming back for more inspiration. Never descending into triteness, Kornfield is realistic on tough issues, encouraging awareness and persistence over resignation and indifference. If you yearn to open your heart, open the pages of Kornfield's latest. --Brian Bruya
Product Description
You hold in your hand an invitation:
To remember the transforming power of forgiveness and lovingkindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
In this beautiful and graceful little book, internationally renowned Buddhist teacher and meditation master Jack Kornfield has collected age-old teachings, modern stories, and time-honored practices for bringing healing, peace, and compassion into our daily lives. Just to read these pages offers calm and comfort. The practices contained here offer meditations for you to discover a new way to meet life’s greatest challenges with acceptance, joy, and hope.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Meaningful for any spiritual tradition February 12, 2008
I love everything Jack has written or recorded. But what's special about this book is how moving it was to my mother, and how it connected us even though we pursue different spiritual traditions (me Buddhism, her Catholicism). Because this book is divided into short paragraphs, you can read one and then meditate or reflect on it. Each story or quote is worth it. Jack has such a large and wonderful storehouse of quotes and stories from every spiritual tradition, from the Dalai Lama to Martin Luther King. Highly recommended.
 Pocket-sized inspiration December 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jack Kornfield has written a small book that packs a powerful and inpirational punch. Forgiveness, lovingkindess and peace are three attributes that lead to a happy life.
The 3 attributes are explained through stories and quotes from people like the Buddha, Benjamin Franklin and Nelson Mandela. And at the conclusion of the writings on each of the attributes are meditations.
One comment on peace from Kornfield's book that really hit home with me was, "Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes."
Simple wisdom February 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't look for Buddhism in this book, at least not the Buddhism that can be contained in the mind. But you'll find great, simple wisdom that clearly shows that Buddhism in only one source of great wisdom.
This is a book to read slowly when you're at your lowest point -like after the death of a loved one. Many, many simple reminders that we hold peace in our hearts, even when our fear, anger, greed, and ignorance hide it.
simple easy to remember concepts September 2, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I like best the definition of "to forgive" - to let go of hope of a different past.
Soul Soothing November 15, 2004
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a great book. Why isn't it in paperback yet???
What a subject. Mr. Kornfield, as a Zen practitioner, takes us through a simple yet very thorough journey to forgiveness.
He makes a clear distinction between forgiving and moving on with your life and forgiving and getting back into the frying pan. I appreciate that because currently in many instances, getting back into the pan seems to be to goal of many religious, pseudo religious, and philosophical groups. Then, like a good Zen practitioner, after giving us permission to move on with our lives he then brings it to our attention that - if we ever could completely understand another human's life and history - there would be no need to even forgive them.
I read this book several years ago and I really enjoyed it. It is simple but not "fluffy or light" reading. Sometimes the most simple things are the hardest to do. Having been twice divorced I made a commitment each time to remain on civil and speaking terms with both men. It was (and is) hard. Essentially, you simply have to just let some things go - turn them loose. Open your fist and let them just float away. I even lost some friends over that. People who could only see what they perceived to be "my side". I just didn't want to live the kind of soap opera life that has you crossing the street to avoid someone you were married to because they got the dishes, or the dog or whatever. I also wanted the children to see the concept- actually see it work - that you can end/change a relationship, still be supportive, see one another as humans and treat each other with the love and dignity that you afford to all people even though the marriage did not work.
In short this is, I would imagine, what some would classify as "classic" Buddhism. Simple, profound soul work.
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