The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion
Sharon Salzberg has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Influenced  by her 35 years of study with Buddhist masters from a variety of traditions, she teaches intensive awareness practice ("insight" meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindess and compassion. She is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, both in Massachusetts. Salzberg is the author of several books, including The Force of Kindness (Sounds True, 2005), Faith (Riverhead, 2003), Lovingkindness (Shambhala, 2008), and A Heart As Wide as the World (Shambhala, 1999), and the Sounds True audio programs Insight Meditation (2004) with Joseph Goldstein and Lovingkindness Meditation (2004). She lives in New York City and Barre, Massachusetts.