Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

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Price
$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Bantam
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Pages
352
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 1.1 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780553380996

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About the Author

Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist as well as a Buddhist lay priest and popular teacher of mindfulness (vipassana) meditation. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community in Washington, D.C., and has conducted workshops at Spirit Rock Center, Omega Institute, the New York Open Center, and other retreat centers nationwide. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her teenaged son.

Reviews

"An important, fresh voice from the ranks of modern dharma teacher-writers."--Yoga Journal

"An invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties."--Thich Nhat Hanh, globally renowned mindfulness teacher

"A consoling and practical guide that can help people find a light within themselves."--Publishers Weekly

"A clear, practical and caring guide."--Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness

"An invitation to heal our pain by accepting our heart."--Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessing

"Through her deep experience as a therapist, buddhist meditation teacher, yogi, and mother, Tara Brach shines light upon the vital subject of learning to realise inner completeness, wholeness, and healing."--Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

"An insightful, warmhearted, and important contribution."--Tara Bennett-Goleman, author of Emotional Alchemy

"Overflows with wonderful characters whose struggles we recognize as our own. . . Tara Brach skillfully weaves together some of the most important new insights in contemporary psychotherapy with one of the central psychological insights of the Buddha: There is no part of ourselves we need to exile from our awareness and our love. Radical Acceptance is a book, and a practice, that we all need."--Stephen Cope, author of The Great Work of Your Life

"Radical Acceptance offers gentle wisdom and tender healing, a most excellent medicine for our unworthiness and longing. Breathe, soften, and let these compassionate teachings bless your heart."--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry