Essential Guide to Loving-Kindness

Sylvia Boorstein unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve.

Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.

Joanna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.

Zen priest Liên Shutt teaches a short meditation to foster compassion for beings in search of refuge.

Lindsay Kyte talks to Sharon Salzberg about how she became one of today’s most relatable Buddhist teachers.

You’re never too young to practice loving-kindness. Gail Silver on how to teach metta to your kids.

Susan Piver shares her practice for loving all of your imperfections and contradictions.

Janice Lynne Lundy shares her perspective on the practice of loving-kindness – why she loves it, and why it goes with her everywhere.

Josh Korda on how to free your naturally loving heart and expand your goodwill to include all beings through loving-kindness meditation.

In the Metta Sutta, the Buddha teaches his monks how to live a moral and upright life, with metta at its center.