The beloved Buddhist meditation teacher and New York Times best-selling author
of Real Happiness offers encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual
path.

In A Heart as Wide as the World, one of America’s most popular Buddhist teachers offers
a book of encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual path. In short sections
that include many stories and anecdotes culled from her twenty-five years as a student
and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Sharon Salzberg reveals how our own happiness is
found in the capacity to open our hearts to others—and this capacity is far vaster than we
ever thought possible.

Through meditation and the practice of lovingkindness, we can discover our intimate
connection to those around us and to the world as a whole. This realization acts like a
hidden storehouse of strength, allowing us to face whatever the world offers us with
wisdom and compassion. Many chance moments, both small and profound, serve as the
basis for Salzberg’s teachings: hearing a market stall hawker calling, “I have what you
need!”; noting hotel guests’ reactions to a midnight fire alarm; watching her teacher, Dipa
Ma, bless a belligerent dog; seeing the Dalai Lama laughing uproariously at his own
mistake. Each passing moment, Salzberg shows, can help us down the path toward “a
seamlessness of connection and an unbounded heart.” Put together within these