The Path to Peace

<b><b>Beloved Buddhist nun Ayya Khema expertly guides the reader through ten meditations on generating loving-kindness and cultivating the fifteen wholesome qualities necessary for igniting compassion and boundless love.</b></b><br><br>Having escaped Nazi Germany in 1938&#160;Ayya&#160;Khema&#160;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&#151;every day. Peace is the sum of many parts namely the fifteen wholesome qualities the Buddha himself noted in the Metta Sutta&#160;including usefulness mildness humility contentment&#160;receptivity and&#160;others.&#160;Ayya&#160;Khema&#160;expertly guides us through each individual condition using her trademark humor and personal narrative to&#160;help&#160;each reader&#160;shape&#160;their own&#160;path to self-transformation.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>The second part of the book includes an eye-opening discussion of&#160;metta&#160;(loving-kindness)&#160;as both a morality and concentration practice as well as&#160;ten&#160;meditation practices that&#160;use&#160;visualizations rather than more traditional mantra repetition. These visualizations include your heart as a Fountain of Love reaching those close to you and those far away and a Flower Garden where we tend to the blooms in our hearts through love and compassion and share them with others. Edited by her student and retreat leader Leigh Brasington this book is a complete course in practical ways to calm and brighten our minds.