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In her long-awaited debut, a beloved master teacher shows us how to move from the “constant squeeze” of suffering to a direct experience of enoughness.

The magnanimous heart is a heart of balance and buoyancy, of generosity and inclusivity. It allows us to approach each moment exactly as it is, in a fresh and alive way free from agendas and “shoulds,” receiving all that arises. It has the capacity to hold anything and everything, transforming even vulnerability and grief into workable assets.

In writing evocative of Pema Chödrön’s, Narayan Helen Liebenson teaches us exactly how it is possible to turn the sting and anguish of loss into a path of liberation—the deep joy, peace, and happiness within our own hearts that exists beyond mere circumstances.

The Magnanimous Heart shows us how to skillfully respond to painful human emotions through the art of meditative inquiry, or questioning wisely. Readers will learn how to live from a compassionate love that guides our lives and warms whatever it shines upon.

With metta and compassion as companions and allies, we discover how our own magnanimous hearts can gently allow the inner knots to untie themselves.

ISBN-13: 9781614294856

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA

Publication Date: 01-22-2019

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been teaching there since its inception in 1985. Narayan is also a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she offers residential retreats. She leads retreats as well in other parts of the country and the world. Her training over the past forty years includes study in the United States and in Asia with meditation masters in the Theravada, Zen, and Tibetan traditions. She was a student of the late Chan master Sheng Yen for over ten years. Asked by Master Sheng Yen to teach, Narayan decided to integrate her understanding of Zen into her already existing Vipassana lineage. Narayan is the author and illustrator of a small book titled Life as Meditation, and for many years wrote a meditator’s advice column in Buddhadharma magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword Joseph Goldstein ix

Preface xi

Part I Loss

1 A Constant Squeeze 3

2 The Five Recollections 17

3 Magnanimous Heart 29

Part II Grief

4 Practicing with Painful Emotions 45

5 Regret 59

6 Loving Kindness and Compassion 71

7 Relinquishing Grief 87

Part III Joy

8 The "Feel Good" Gene 103

9 Pleasure and Joy 115

10 Don't-Know Mind 127

11 From Hope to Faith 141

Part IV Liberation

12 Relaxing the Grasping 157

13 The Art of Questioning 171

14 Nirvana Is Enoughness 185

Credits 195

Index 199

About the Author 207