Love to Un-hate Groups: Approaching Hatred Through Loving-Kindness and Compassion (Compassion Series)

This groundbreaking workbook paves the way to courageously practice compassion by seeing the humanity in those who have yet failed to see the humanity within us.By attending to one of the most difficult aspects of compassion-based meditative practices, cultivating benevolence for those who have cause us harm, this book brings forth presence and inner-work into a complicated yet pending matter. As we face one of the most pressing issues of today, hatred continues to propagate as it solidifies unto an us vs. them mentality based upon an ever-growing polarized and fractured society. By drawing from teachings of non-violence and Buddhist meditation praxis, this book brings a space for mindfulness to thrive and for consciousness to flourish to be with what is both happening out there but also In there, within us. By the simple yet powerful practice of connecting with the reality that all humans experience suffering, compassion meditation opens a path to see beyond our differences and into our living human core.Through the use of approachable phrases and the single-focus methodology of coloring, this accessible book simplifies the practice of cultivating compassion in a condensed exercise format that can be used to bring mindfulness into complex times.