Love's Garden A Guide to Mindful Relationships

Long-time couple and Buddhist Dharma teachers Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward offer The Three Keys and other concrete practices for the transformation of suffering and the establishment of happiness. Love's Garden is an invitation to deepen our spiritual practice and strengthen our most important relationships. Through insights, exercises, and personal stories, the authors illustrate how Buddhist principles can help couples navigate difficulties and misunderstandings and reach new levels of happiness together. They write, "You already have everything you need to succeed as partners. You have all the heart, courage, wisdom, and tools you need to create a beautiful partnership. They lie within you. These stories and practices will help to ignite and nourish this inner wisdom and knowing." Book jacket.

Peggy Rowe Ward received Dharma teacher Transmission form Thich Nhat Hanh in 2000 at Plum Village, France. She has a Doctorate in adult education and a Master’s degree in counseling psychology. She has published in professional adult education journals on women’s stories of coming into voice, Her doctoral publications are connected to community centered dreamwork. She has had short essays published in In Our Own Voice (1992) and in The Mindfulness Bell. She co-authored Making Friends with Time (2000) with Tracy Sarriugarte.

Larry Ward has celebrated over 30 years as a Christian minister. He received Dharma teacher transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh in 2000 in Plum Village, France. Larry was an executive director in an international organization engaged in human development programs in 52 countries. He has lived for extended periods in Hong Kong, India, and the Caribbean. He has published articles and poems for Emerging Lifestyles, Edges, and The Mindfulness Bell magazines. In 2006 he was commissioned by the United Nations to write a paper on mindfulness and leadership.