Lovingkindness Meditation [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)

by Sharon Salzberg (Author)

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Product Description
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 life-changing force. Dating back 2,600 years, the practice of metta (an ancient Buddhist term meaning "lovingkindness") is a timeless method for unlocking your heart’s immense healing resources.

Book Description
Sharon Salzberg, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society teaches metta practice, the classic Buddhist meditation for using love to heal ourselves and the world.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591792681
• ISBN-13: 978-1591792680
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #246,660 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring but not sentimentalized, makes the practice seem doable!, October 27, 2005

By	Melusine62 "melusine62" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

Highly recommended! I really enjoyed Sharon Salzburg's introduction to the Buddhist metta practice, Lovingkindness Meditation. This is more of an education/explanation of metta than guided meditation sessions (i.e., she does not have long, substantive, discrete meditation sessions, but works brief examples into her explanation), but I found the explanation so good that it gave me an excellent intro to metta, which I subsequently felt like I could practice on my own. In fact, I had an interesting and symbolic dream about a mentor/benefactor figure the same night I had tried out the metta practice and included him, so it seemed the meditation reached my subconscious too!

Ms. Salzburg's presentation is detailed, conversational in style, and easily accessible to Westerners without seeming like a simplification, sentimentalization, or co-opting of the original practice. Her examples and stories given along the way make metta seem doable and practical and not like some overly idealized level of compassion that is impossible for many of us to reach. The Sounds True website has sound samples of this work (and many of their other authors' CDs and cassettes), something Amazon should be doing as well. If you like this tape, you might also enjoy the meditation CD (also available on Amazon) by Bodhipaksa titled "Guided Meditations: For Developing Calmness, Awareness, and Love," which includes a complete metta practice, along with two other meditations. I found Salzberg and Bodhipaksa's works very complementary--the Bodhipaksa CD gives a complete 27-minute meditation session of metta in an incredibly soothing voice, while this tape provides the in-depth explanation that gives the practice sense and purpose.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Filled with loving-kindness, June 5, 2001

By	A. Omer "goodkarmanc" (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lovingkindness Meditation (Audio Cassette)

I am just beginning to learn to meditate and this is my first set of tapes. I have already listened to them over and over. Sharon Salzberg's soothing voice guides you to focus on the loving-kindness within and then send it to people around you, even difficult ones. I did not have any expectations but I already am beginning to look at myself and people differently. I have more compassion for others and know that they want the same thing as me, happiness. It helped me deal with feelings of anger and sadness. Read the small guidebook first that is enclosed and then begin the tapes so you have a better understanding of how to begin.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovingkindness Meditation, July 19, 2005

By	MorningsAre Best (Washington State) - See all my reviews

The Inspirational Sharon Salzberg does a beautiful gentle talk and meditation all about love and living. I noticed a difference in the way I felt about life after listening to it only one time. It is an important tool for meditation and an awakened happy life. You won't be sorry to own this one.