ISBN 10: 156455404X ISBN 13: 9781564554048

Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated, 1996

Lovingkindness Meditation Sharon Salzberg

Within your own heart is a limitless source of supreme energy – the energy of love. Join Sharon Salzberg in this thorough course that will teach you a gentle, six-stage meditation drawn from the vipassana tradition. Learn to: melt feelings of isolation; awaken true compassion, even for those who have hurt you; free yourself from needless suffering, and more. Includes 7-page study guide

Book Description:

Sharon Salzberg, co-founder of the venerable Insight Meditation Society, is among this country's leading teachers of metta (lovingkindness) practice. Lovingkindness Meditation is her guide to this traditional six-step meditation, designed to access the human heart's own limitless source of supreme energy -- the energy of love. A perfect introduction to this healing, enriching, and life-changing practice, originally taught by the Buddha himself.

"In clear and simple words, 'Loving-kindness Meditation' conveys a lifetime of study, practice, and inspiration". -- Joseph Goldstein author of The Experience of Insight

About the Author:

Sharon Salzberg has studied and practiced meditation with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers for the past 25 years. She is a cofounder of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she lives and teaches. She is the author of Lovingkindness, A Heart As Wide As the World, and, on audio, Lovingkindness Meditation and A Heart As Wide As the World.