by Jack Kornfield · Bantam · tapa dura · ISBN 9780553102901
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«After the Ecstasy, the Laundry» is Jack Kornfield's spirituality essay, published by Bantam in hardback (336 pages, in English).
After enlightenment, spiritual life continues in the everyday. Kornfield brings together personal stories, traditional tales, and voices of practitioners from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Sufi traditions to show how the awakened heart faces pain, work, illness, and loss.
First edition published by Bantam in 2000. The volume includes an index.
For readers interested in Buddhism, meditation, and spirituality who seek to integrate practice into daily life.
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Jack Kornfield is an American psychologist, writer, and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized teacher training, and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama.
