If we want to find inner peace and wisdom, we needn't move to an ashram or monastery. Our buddha nature, our natural warmth and insight, can be discovered right where we are, in the context of our relationships, our family lives, and in our efforts help and serve others. Popular spiritual teacher Jack Kornfield shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and practice. A student of some of the most revered meditation masters of the twentieth century, Kornfield offers keen observations about the rise of mindfulness practice in the West and shares his insights on finding freedom right where we are.

Topics include:

How to cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity
Conscious parenting
Overcoming the common obstacles to awakening
Spirituality and sexuality
Commiting ourselves to easing the suffering in the world
The way of forgiveness
And much more

Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are, Jack Kornfield, Shambhala Publications, Hardcover, 279 pages, $24.95

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and has taught meditation internationally since 1974. His books include "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry"; "The Art of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness, and Peace"; "Meditation for Beginners"; and "The Wise Heart".

Contents: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield
Foreword	ix
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE: BECOMING WHO WE ARE
1. The Liberating Practice of Mindfulness	1
2. The Art of Awakening: The Way of Meditation	11
3. A Mind Like Sky: Learning to Rest in Awareness	17
4. Realizing Our Full Potential: Cultivating Love and Joy	22
5. Make Your Heart a Zone of Peace: Dharma and Politics	36
6. Our Children Will Learn What They Live: Becoming More Conscious Parents	41
7. The Art of Forgiveness	53
PART TWO: TAKING UP THE SPIRITUAL PATH
8. Spiritual Initiation: Monastic Rites of Wholeness and Commitment	61
9. Perils, Promises, and Spiritual Emergency on the Path	73
10. The Near Enemies of Awakening: Nonattachment Is Not Indifference	102
11. The Bodhisattva Way: Tending to the Suffering of All Beings	111
12. Samadhi: Developing a Steady Concentrated Mind	125
13. Spiritual Maturity	133
PART THREE: LESSONS FROM MODERN MASTERS
14. Natural Freedom of the Heart: The Teachings of Ajahn Chah	149
15. The Inspiration of Dipa Ma Barua	167
16. Holding the Banner of Dharma: Celebrating Chogyam Trungpa	173
PART FOUR: PRACTICING THE DHARMA IN THE WEST
17. American Buddhism: Preserving and Adapting the Dharma	193
18. This Fantastic, Unfolding Experiment: Establishing the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock	211
19. Sex Lives of the Gurus	225
20. Drugs and Spiritual Practice	235
21. Even the Best Meditators Have Old Wounds to Heal	245
22. The Sure Heart's Release: Healing Our Personal Pain	250
23. Enlightenments	258
PART FIVE: PRACTICES
24. Take the One Seat: Meditation Practice	269
25. Forgiveness Meditation	271
26. Loving-kindness Meditation (Metta)	273
Credits	277
About the Author	281