Nourishing the gardner : everyday practices for growing mindful -- Seeing : it all begins with the gardener -- Renewing : taking care of the gardener -- Being : watering the seed of mindfulness -- The soil : exploring our consciousness -- Looking deeply at the present moment -- Exploring the garden of our consciousness -- Working with the seeds of love and suffering -- Selective watering : focusing and mantras -- Every garden needs these seeds -- Loving-kindness -- Compassion -- Joy -- Equanimity -- Every garden is nourished by these seeds -- Deep listening -- Loving speech -- Gratitude -- Generosity -- Every garden has compost -- Fear -- Anger -- Jealousy -- Doubt -- Conclusion: chapter 20 -- creating a legacy as a master gardener : tending your inner -- Garden.

By sharing ways to practice mindfulness and use it to stay open to self and others, The Seeds of Love offers a path for nurturing the positive seeds within ourselves and transforming seeds of fear, anger, jealousy and doubt into compost for our soil. Drawing on a variety of faiths and traditions, the Seeds of Love fosters the practice of using simple actions to reach the best in ourselves and share it with those around us. --from back cover.