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Food for the Heart
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
The standard anthology published by Wisdom Publications, edited by Ajahn Amaro with a foreword by Jack Kornfield: it gathers in a single volume revised talks from the free-distribution collections, with an introduction on the forest tradition. It is the most widely read gateway to his teaching in English.
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Authorship note
Ajahn Chah did not write this work: these are talks given in Thai or the Isan dialect, recorded on cassette and transcribed and translated by his disciples. Edited by Ajahn Amaro; translations by the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat and others.
Editions and translations
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Other works by Ajahn Chah
- Fragments of a Teaching · 1972
- A Taste of Freedom · 1980
- Bodhinyana · 1982
- A Still Forest Pool · 1985
- Living Dhamma · 1992
- Food for the Heart (1992 collection) · 1992
- A Tree in a Forest · 1994
- No Ajahn Chah · 1994
- The Path to Peace · 1996
- Clarity of Insight · 2000
- Being Dharma · 2001
- Unshakeable Peace · 2003
- Everything Is Teaching Us · 2004
- Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away · 2005
- The Teachings of Ajahn Chah · 2007
- Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks · 2007
- In Simple Terms · 2010
- The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah · 2011
- On Meditation · 2018
- The Training of the Heart
- Our Real Home
- Beyond Cause and Effect · 1990
Sources
- Ajahn Chah. Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah. Ed. Ajahn Amaro, prólogo de Jack Kornfield. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2002.
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