How to Feel
An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions
$34.75
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2026
Summary
A new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness – and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotions.
To feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Buddha discovered that practices of mindfully observing our feelings and emotions can help us gain some distance from them. In How to Feel, Maria Heim provides new translations of essential early Buddhist teachings on mindfulness meditation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691267395 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691267391 |
| Author: | Maria Heim, The Buddha |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 123mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers |
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Critics Review
“Heim is a masterful guide, and an ambitious one… . She’s created an accessible point of entry into a way of thinking—thinking about feeling—without undermining the complexity of the challenge that is at the core of these texts.”—Michael A. Elliott, Amherst Magazine
“Heim’s translation offers a wise and psychologically sensitive approach to it, encouraging both an intellectual and a workable understanding… . [A]n excellent manual for those engaged in Buddhist practice.” * Choice *
Maria Heim
The Buddha (the ‘Awakened One’) is the title achieved by Siddhattha Gotama, who lived and taught in north India 2,500 years ago. As a young man he renounced his privileged life to seek an end to suffering and achieved a breakthrough by closely examining his experience. He taught his methods to others, founding the tradition we now call Buddhism.
Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is the author of Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India and one of the translators of How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (both Princeton).
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