Lovingkindness
The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Shambhala · Print & ebook · February 4, 2020
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others.
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- Who it’s for
- A contemplative guide to meeting intimacy’s fears with Buddhist teachings and lovingkindness practice.
- Themes
- Self-love and connection, Lovingkindness and compassion, Buddhist meditation practice
- Genres
- Buddhist Practice & Ritual, Meditation
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path.
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In this inspiring book, longtime meditation practitioner and teacher Sharon Salzberg shows how the Buddhist path can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each one of us, drawing on Buddhist teachings, wisdom from various traditions, her personal experiences, and guided meditation exercises. With these tools, she teaches how the practice of lovingkindness can illuminate a path to cultivating love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—the four “heavenly abodes” of traditional Buddhism.
The Practice of Kindness
A contemplative guide to meeting intimacy’s fears with Buddhist teachings and lovingkindness practice.
Come here for
- Buddhist teachings alongside wisdom from varied traditions
- A path toward love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
Expect
- Guided meditation exercises grounded in lovingkindness
- Personal experience woven into spiritual teaching
Where it sits
| Meditation | 76% |
|---|---|
| Buddhist Practice & Ritual | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Meditation
- Buddhist Practice & Ritual
- Theravada Buddhism
- Authors
- Sharon Salzberg
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Published
- February 4, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Self-love and connection · Lovingkindness and compassion · Buddhist meditation practice
- Reading lane
- Meditation