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Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah Paperback - 2002

by Chah; Introduction by Amaro; Foreword by Jack Kornfield

Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. This collection brings together for the first time Chah's most powerful teachings, including those on meditation, liberation from suffering, calming the mind, enlightenment, and the 'living dhamma'.


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Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shape the American Vipassana community. This collection brings together for the first time Ajahn Chah's most powerful teachings, including those on meditation, liberation from suffering, calming the mind, enlightenment and the 'living dhamma'. Most of these talks have previously only been available in limited, private editions and the publication of Food for the Heart therefore represents a momentous occasion: the hugely increased accessibility of his words and wisdom. Western teachers such as Ram Dass and Jack Kornfield have extolled Chah's teachings for years and now readers can experience them directly in this book.

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About this mind -- in truth there is nothing really wrong with it.

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  • Title Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
  • Author Chah; Introduction by Amaro; Foreword by Jack Kornfield
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA., USA.
  • Date September 2002
  • ISBN 9780861713233 / 0861713230
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 5.96 x 1.12 in (23.16 x 15.14 x 2.84 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Spiritual life - Buddhism, Buddhism - Doctrines
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002004798
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.4

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  • Publishers Weekly, 07/15/2002, Page 68

About the author

Ajahn Chah (1918-92) was part of a movement to establish simple monastic communities in the remote forests of Thailand. At this date over one hundred forest monasteries have been established that look to his teaching as their inspiration. Ajahn Chah's simple yet profound style of teaching has a special appeal to Westerners, and in 1979 the first of several branch monasteries in the West was established in England, and there are now more than ten monasteries in the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Ajahn Amaro is abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in southeast England and author of numerous books and articles on Buddhist themes across traditions. Born in England in 1956, Ven. Amaro received his BSc. in Psychology and Physiology from the University of London. He studied Buddhism in Thailand in the Forest Tradition and was ordained as a bhikkhu by Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah at Wat Pah Nanachat in 1979. He returned to England and joined Ajahn Sumedho at the newly established Chithurst Monastery. He resided for many years at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England, and in 1996 he established Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California. He lived there until 2010, when he was called back to Amaravati to assume the duties of abbot. Jack Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1975 and later the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology. His books include After the Ecstasy, the Laundry and the national bestseller A Path with Heart.
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