The Path to Peace by Ayya Khema

The Path to Peace by Ayya Khema

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.

Having escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, Ayya Khema 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--every day. Peace is the sum of many parts, namely the fifteen wholesome qualities the Buddha himself noted in the Metta Sutta, including usefulness, mildness, humility, contentment, receptivity, and others. Ayya Khema expertly guides us through each individual condition, using her trademark humor and personal narrative, to help each reader shape their own path to self-transformation.

The second part of the book includes an eye-opening discussion of metta (loving-kindness) as both a morality and concentration practice, as well as ten meditation practices that use 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.

Ayya Khema was a Buddhist nun and one of Europe's foremost Buddhist teachers. She established the World Buddhist Women's Center near Colombo, Sri Lanka, and authored over 25 Buddhist publications, including Being Nobody, Going Nowhere.

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ISBN 13	9781611809503
ISBN 10	1611809509
Title	The Path to Peace
Author	Ayya Khema
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2022-07-19
Number of pages	128
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