Opening the Door of Your Heart: And Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness

Ajahn Brahm

Hachette Australia, 2008 - Philosophy - 228 pages

Moments of insight, love and compassion flow through Ajahn Brahm's stories like rivers of hope. In nearly thirty years as a Buddhist monk, born and educated in the West but trained in Thai forest tradition, Ajahn Brahm has gathered many poignant, funny and profound stories from the Buddhist philosophy. He has taught this philosophy to Westerners from all walks of life, led meditation groups in Australian prisons, and counselled the distressed, the sick and the bereaved. The stories that emerge, like the experiences they reflect, are thoughtful, funny and enlightening.

About the author

UK-born Ajahn Brahm was ordained as a monk in Bangkok at the age of twenty-three by the Abbot of Wat Saket. He subsequently spent nine years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition under Venerable Ajahn Chah. Ajahn Brahm is now the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery and the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Opening the Door of Your Heart: And Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness
• Author: Ajahn Brahm
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Hachette Australia, 2008
• ISBN: 0733623115, 9780733623110
• Length: 228 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Buddhist; Religion / Buddhism / General; Religion / Buddhism / History; Self-Help / General; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General