Buddha's Heart: Meditation Practice for Developing Well-Being, Love, and Empathy

An inspiring and healing guide to immersive meditation in the ancient Buddhist heart practices-the brahmavih?rasWith Buddha's Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmavih?ras. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awakening and deepening self-realization.Informed by Snyder's experiential understanding, and suitable for those at any level of meditation practice, Buddha's Heart leads us step-by-step through:? traditional teachings on wholesomeness and concentration meditations to establish a supportive bedrock for our personal discovery;? guided, heart-opening meditations on loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity;? further guided practices for deepening awareness, including gratitude, forgiveness, and opening to the Oneness of Reality;? exploratory exercises for each meditation practice, illuminating the psychological blocks to accessing our deeper nature's heart qualities; and? embracing mindfulness and warm attunement in everyday life-opening our hearts to the profound depths of reality and the Absolute.Buddha's Heart teaches what seems counterintuitive but is undeniably true: the more we open our hearts, the more resilient and flexible we are. And the more authentically vulnerable we are, the safer and more protected we become.