Lovingkindness Meditation

Learning to Love Through Insight Meditation

De: Sharon Salzberg

A Traditional Meditation for Applying Love As a Healing Force

The Insight Meditation Society is one of North America’s oldest institutions dedicated to bringing the life-changing gifts of mindfulness training to the West. On Lovingkindness Meditation, IMS cofounder and senior instructor Sharon Salzberg guides you through a six-step meditation designed to access the human heart’s own limitless source of supreme energy—the energy of love. Known traditionally as metta (an ancient Buddhist term meaning “lovingkindness”), this timeless practice is an easy-to-learn method for unlocking your greatest internal resource for healing others and yourself. Here is a universal meditation to help you:

• Melt away feelings of isolation
• Awaken true compassion, even for those who have hurt you
• Find freedom from needless, self-created suffering
• Learn to trust your own loving, intelligent heart

Among the world’s contemplative traditions, the meditation on how to love is perhaps the most basic—and most powerful. Lovingkindness Meditation is the perfect introduction to this enriching practice.

I first meditated with you on 10 Percent Happier

My Practice keeps becoming more important to my daily life. Thank you, Sharon for being part of the reason.

Very lovely Meditation Sequence

Thank you Sharon! I listen to this almost every day. :) it has 2 meditations. One for yourself that is about 16 minutes and one for sending loving kind ness to others that is about 20 minutes. They are very gentle and I always feel more calm and at ease after listening to them.

Pleased to find this.

Sharon Salzberg is an excellent meditation guide. She is clear, intelligent, and warm.
I always look for a 'voice' that feels right to me, and she has it.

Guidance

Wonderful guided loving kindness meditation. I am reading her book and the guidance is wonderful.

shorter than expected

A great introduction to loving kindness.
I guess I was expecting something closer to Pema Chodron