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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 a 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 practiceevery 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. ReviewA survivor of war and anti-Semitism, Ayya Khema embodied an all-forgiving compassion. She lived with great courage. In the California desert, on the Nuns Island in Sri Lanka, in Germany and New Mexico and other venues, she gave her clear, concise exposition of the Buddhas teachingsadvocating for womens full participation in the Buddhist world and founding organizations and practice centers to awaken the flame of Dharma in everyones heart. In this book, Ayya Khema highlights the muscularity of Buddhist practice, the mindful effort necessary for the cultivation of lovefirst for ourselves and then reaching out to cradle our beleaguered world. In plain language she guides us to transform our suffering to joy in every aspect of our lives as we walk the path to peace.Sandy Boucher, author of Turning the WheelAbout the AuthorsAYYA KHEMA was born to a Jewish family in Berlin in 1923. Escaping Germany in 1938, she went on to study Buddhism and meditation all over the world, including the San Francisco Zen Center. In 1979, she was ordained as a Theravadin Buddhist nun, receiving the name Khema, meaning safety and security (Ayya means sister). Ayya Khema established a forest monastery near Sidney, Australia; a training center for nuns in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Buddha-Haus, a meditation center in the Allgu, Germany. Among her books are When the Iron Eagle Flies; Being Nobody, Going Nowhere; Who Is My Self?; and an autobiography, I Give You My Life. LEIGH BRASINGTON, the author of Right Concentration, studied the jhanas with the late Ven. Ayya Khema, authorized him to teach retreats on the jhanas. He was also empowered to teach by Jack Kornfield. He teaches numerous jhana retreats throughout the year, at venues that include Cloud Mountain, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Gaia House, Vallecitos, and Southern Dharma.

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Names: Khema, Ayya, author.

Title: The path to peace: a Buddhist guide to cultivating loving-kindness / Ayya Khema; edited by Leigh Brasington.

Description: First edition. | Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021054650 | ISBN 9781611809503 (trade paperback) Subjects: LCSH : MeditationBuddhism. | Peace of mindReligious aspectsBuddhism.

eISBN 9780834844469

Classification: LCC BQ 5612. K 445 2022 | DDC 294.3/444dc23/eng/20220124

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021054650

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May beings all live happily and safe

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may their hearts rejoice within themselves!

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Preface

Ven. Ayya Khema was a meditation and Buddha Dhamma teacher in the last half of the twentieth century. She primarily taught in Europe, North America, and Australia. She was well-known for teaching the jhnasthe concentration states that the Buddha defined as Right Concentration, the eighth topic on the Eightfold Pathbut her actual range of topics covered all of sla, samdhi, and pamorality, concentration, and wisdomwhich the Buddha taught in the suttas of the Pali Canon.

She was a dedicated practitioner and teacher of metta and metta meditation. Metta is usually translated as loving-kindness, but she felt unconditional love more accurately captured what the Buddha was actually teaching. Metta meditation is both a morality practice and a concentration practice. Ayya Khema strongly recommended that everyone start every formal meditation period by doing at least a bit of metta meditationalways some for oneself and optionally for others as well. Not only does this practice help one learn to love oneself, but it also calms and brightens the mindboth qualities that are essential for accessing the deep concentration states of the jhnas.

In May of 1994, Ayya Khema taught a twenty-four-day meditation retreat near Santa Cruz, California. Toward the end of that retreat, she gave three formal dhamma talks on the fifteen wholesome conditions for creating peacefulness that appear at the beginning of the Metta Suttathe most well-known of the Buddhas discourses on metta. Those talks have been transcribed and make up the bulk of this book, as part 1.

In almost every retreat Ayya Khema taught, she would speak at length on metta. A transcription of one such talk, given in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1992, is also included here, in part 2.

She taught a method of doing formal metta meditation using visualizations rather than phrases. Ten of those guided metta meditations are included as well and represent the balance of part 2.

I hope you find these teachings inspiring and helpful.

Leigh Brasington

Oakland, California

Editors Note

This is a book of transcribed talks and teachings given at various retreats by the late Ven. Ayya Khema. We have strived to preserve her voice as much as possible here so that her unique style, tone, and wisdom can be shared, just as it was when she was with us, to new and old practitioners alike. You can find the recordings of many of these teachings and more in the resources listed on . We hope you find peace and joy from this profound offering.

Part One
PEACE
The Metta Sutta
The Buddhas Words on Loving-Kindness
(Sutta Nipata 1.8)

Translation by Ven. Khantipalo

What should be done by one whos skilled in wholesomeness

To gain the state of peacefulness is this:

One must be able, upright, straight and not proud,

Easy to speak to, mild and well content,

Easily satisfied,

And not caught up in too much bustle,

And frugal in ones ways,

With senses calmed, intelligent, not bold,

Not being covetous when with other folk,

Abstaining from the ways that wise ones blame,

And this the thought that one should always hold:

May beings all live happily and safe

And may their hearts rejoice within themselves.

Whatever there may be with breath of life

Whether they be frail or very strong, without exception,

Be they long or short or middle-sized,

Or be they big or small, or thick,

Or visible, or invisible,

Or whether they dwell far or they dwell near,

Those that are here, those seeking to exist,

May beings all rejoice within themselves.

Let no one bring about anothers ruin

And not despise in any way or place,

Let them not wish each other any ill

From provocation or from enmity.

Just as a mother at the risk of life

Loves and protects her child, her only child,

So one should cultivate this boundless love

To all that live in the whole universe

Extending from a consciousness sublime

Upwards and downwards and across the world,

Untroubled, free from hate and enmity.

And while one stands and while one walks and sits

Or one lies down still free from drowsiness

One should be intent on this mindfulness

This is divine abiding here they say.

But when one lives quite free from any view,

Is virtuous, with perfect insight won,

And greed for sensual desires expelled,

One surely comes no more to any womb.

The Fifteen Wholesome Conditions for Creating Peacefulness

We can now take a look at the Loving-Kindness Discourse, the one we chant in the mornings on the retreats I teach. Most of the chantings in this tradition are teachings. They are either teachings or they are homage and reverence to Buddha, Dharma, Sanghaeither one or the other. This discourse is very beloved, and chanted extensively, particularly in Sri Lanka, but also in Thailand. Most temples and monasteries and nunneries chant it every day. Now, when one chants it every day, one eventually knows it by heart, which is helpful, but also it can become mechanical. They are just sounds in the end, and one doesnt give any real attention to the meaning behind the words. But these are teachings of the Buddha, and its quite important to have a deeper insight into what he is trying to tell us. This particular discourse is from the Sutta Nipata, which is in the fifth sutta collection in the Pali Canon and contains some of the oldest material of the whole Pali Canon. So well have a look at what hes telling us there, what the teaching is; and when we know that, and take it to heart, it can make a lot of difference.

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