The Path to Peace A Buddhist Guide to Cultivating Loving-Kindness

Having escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, Ayya Khema has singularly profound perspective on creating peace, unconditional love, and compassion. She gently teaches that inner peace is not necessarily natural or innate. Instead, peace should be considered a skill that needs intentional practice-every day. Peace is the sum of many parts, namely the fifteen wholesome qualities the Buddha himself noted in the Metta Sutta, including usefulness, mildness, humility, contentment, receptivity, and others. Ayya Khema expertly guides us through each individual condition, using her trademark humour and personal narrative, to help each reader shape their own path to self-transformation. The second part of the book includes an eye-opening discussion of metta (loving-kindness) as both a morality practice and a concentration practice as well as ten meditation practices that use visualizations rather than more traditional mantra repetition. Edited by her student and retreat leader, Leigh Brasington, this book is a complete course in practical ways to calm and brighten our minds.

ISBN:	9781611809503
Publisher:	Shambhala
Imprint:	Shambhala
Published date:	11 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	294.3444
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220124
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 159
Weight:	182g
Height:	127mm
Width:	195mm
Spine width:	16mm

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