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  Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Library)

  by Sharon Salzberg

  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. In this inspiring book, Sharon Salzberg, one of America's leading spiritual teachers, shows us... (more)
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  A Heart as Wide as the World

  by Sharon Salzberg

  One of America's most popular Buddhist teachers distills more than 25 years of teaching and practicing meditation into a series of short essays, rich with anecdotes and personal revelations, that offer genuine aid and comfort for anyone on the spiritual path.
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  Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

  by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  "All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing other to be happy." This inspiring book explains how to meditate on eight beautiful verses that comprise one of Buddhism's best-loved teachings, Eight Verses for Training the Mind. Composed by the great Tibetan Bodhisattva, Geshe Langri Tangpa, this short poem shows how we can transform all life's difficulties into valuable spiritual insights. Geshe... (more)
• Metta: Loving Kindness in BuddhismKhun Dujin Boriharnwanaket

  

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  Metta: Loving Kindness in Buddhism

  by Khun Dujin Boriharnwanaket

  The real test of religious awakening lies in what you do in whether or not your love for God is shown through loving actions in relation to others. Almost every tradition calls for this loving service to others-Christians, for example, are called to practice charity; many Hindu schools advocate selfless service. Here for the first time is a treatise on the Buddhist concept of metta or loving kindness... (more)
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  The Way of Discernment: Participant's Book (Companions in Christ)

  by Stephen V. Doughty, Marjorie J. Thompson

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  An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

  by Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho

  In the summer of 1999, the Dalai Lama addressed an audience of over 40,000 in Central Park on how to live a better life. Open Heart is derived from this and other popular lectures given in New York. Here, the Dalai Lama progresses beyond his bestsellers The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Millennium by introducing specific practices that can engender happiness. Spiritual practice, according to the... (more)
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  Awakening Loving-Kindness (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

  by Pema Chodron

  This abridgment of Pema Chodron's Wisdom of No Escape focuses on a meditation technique that uses the ordinary events of everyday life to teach us how to engender loving-kindness toward all beings, beginning with ourselves.
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  Lovingkindness Meditation

  by Sharon Salzberg

  Within your own heart is a limitless source of supreme energy – the energy of love. No other force in the universe compares to it. The world’s great spiritual traditions, both past and present, agree on this simple principle. Can love be harnessed and applied to others – used as a "tool" for changing lives? Lovingkindness Meditation teaches a traditional practice for cultivating love, and applying it as a... (more)