How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions

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 and connects them to recent finding...