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| View Larger Image | Lovingkindness Meditation
by Sharon Salzberg
| | List Price: | $19.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 139984 | | Studio: | Sounds True, Incorporated | | | Binding: | Audio CD | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2004 | | Publisher: | Sounds True, Incorporated |
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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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 5 reviews)
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Terrific audiobook 
This is an excellent audiobook that provides a comprehensive overview of metta (lovingkindness) practice. I actually bought it thinking it was a companion audiobook of guided meditations to her book Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, but it turns out that this is essentially an audiobook version of that book!
She has a very pleasant, calming voice, and is easy to listen to. However, it's not so soothing that she makes me fall asleep - I've listened to it in my car. I will certainly be buying more of her books and audiobooks. Highly recommended!
September 29, 2008 | |
Inspiring but not sentimentalized, makes the practice seem doable!
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.
October 27, 2005 | |
Lovingkindness Meditation
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.
July 19, 2005 | |
A Great Aid to Developing Forgiveness and Compassion
These excellent tapes explain and teach Lovingkindness Meditation. I have found the practice very helpful for self healing and for deepening my contemplative (meditation) practice --and I always enjoy revisiting Ms. Salzberg's lessons.
October 29, 2001 | |
Filled with loving-kindness
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.
June 05, 2001 | |
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