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In this inspiring book, Sharon Salzberg, one of America's leading spiritual teachers, shows us how the Buddhist path of lovingkindness can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each of us.

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 those feelings can awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up a spiritual path.

Longtime meditation practitioner and teacher Sharon Salzberg draws on Buddhist teachings, wisdom stories from various traditions, her own experiences, and guided meditation exercises to unearth the radiant heart within each one of us. Discover how the practice of lovingkindness illuminates a path to cultivating love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, helping us realize our own capacity for goodness and a new connection with all beings.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.

ISBN-13: 9781611808209

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Shambhala

Publication Date: 02-04-2020

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Sharon Salzberg is one of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors and has been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for over forty years. She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and teaches meditation across the country, online, and abroad. To learn more, visit sharonsalzberg.com

Table of Contents

Foreword Jon Kabat-Zinn ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 The Revolutionary Art of Happiness 7

2 Relearning Loveliness 17

Exercise Remembering the Good within You 25

Exercise Phrases of Lovingkindness 26

3 Facets of Lovingkindness 29

Exercise The Benefits of Lovingkindness 39

Exercise The Benefactor 39

4 Hindrances to Lovingkindness 41

Exercise Reflection on Happiness 49

Exercise The Meaning of Friends 50

Exercise The Beloved Friend 50

Exercise The Neutral Person 51

5 Working with Anger and Aversion 53

Exercise Forgiveness 63

Exercise Seeing Goodness 65

Exercise The Difficult Person 66

Exercise Difficult Aspects of Oneself 69

6 Breaking Open the Loving Heart 71

Exercise Lovingkindness for All Beings 83

Exercise Lovingkindness toward Groups 84

Exercise Walking Meditation 85

Exercise The Ten Directions 85

7 Developing the Compassionate Heart 87

Exercise Meditation on Compassion 98

Exercise Compassion for Those Who Cause Pain 99

8 Liberating the Mind through Sympathetic Joy 101

Exercise Meditation on Sympathetic Joy 113

Exercise Skating Merit 114

9 The Gift of Equanimity 115

Exercise Equanimity 128

10 The Power of Generosity 131

Exercise Giving 142

11 Living Our Love 145

Exercise The Practice of Morality 160

Afterword to the 25th Anniversary Edition 165

For More Information 171

Credits 173

About the Author 175