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A Meditation on Lovingkindness

By Jack Kornfield

This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.

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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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Pema Chödrön
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A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.

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Rod Meade Sperry (editor), Shambhala Sun (editor)
2014
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The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness

It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves—and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms is simple but not easy: We must learn to open ourselves up to life in all its manifestations.

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Pema Chödrön
2018
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Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training.

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Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön (foreword)
2003
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