Feeling Wisdom: Working with Emotions Using Buddhist Teachings and Western Psychology-Quality Guarantee

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Apsychologist and longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism shows howemotions relate to spiritual practice–that our feeling life is truly atthe heart of our awakening.

The realmof emotion is one of those areas where Buddhism and Western psychologyare often thought to be at odds: Are emotions to be valued, examined,worked with as signs leading us to deeper self-knowledge? Or are theysomething to be ignored and avoided as soon as we recognize them? RobPreece feels that neither of those extremes is correct. He charts a paththrough the emotions as they relate to Buddhist practice, showing thatthough emotions are indeed “skandhas” (elements that make up theillusory self) according to the Buddhist teaching, there is a good dealto be learned from these skandhas, and paying attention to their contentcontributes not only to psychological health but to deep insight intothe nature of reality. He draws on his own experiences with emotions andmeditation, through both his training in Tibetan Buddhism andpsychotherapy, to show how working with emotions can be a complement tomeditation practice.