INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION
WEEK SIX
This page hold content from the weekly class, originally recorded on February 12th, 2025. For the daily meditations, go to the daily meditations page.
Loving Kindness, or Metta
This is what we’ve been building towards over the last several weeks. Loving kindness is ‘the difference that makes the difference’.
Many of us come to meditation because we’ve heard it can make us feel a bit better, less stressed, calmer, more balanced. And it can. But it does much more than that as well.
As we explore this next technique we are going to be using elements of everything we’ve learned so far and applying them in a new way.
One premise here is that we all have an extraordinary capacity for kindness, generosity, love and compassion. It is innate and part of being a human being. However, many of of, perhaps even most of us, don’t use it as much as we might.
A second premise of this approach is that life is dramatically richer, more joyous, more colourful, and happier when we come from here. It is the true alchemy where we are able to take our negativity and turn it into gold.
This may seem warm and fluffy stuff, described in the talk as appearing to be a squishy, Kumbaya approach to life that might be nice but not necessarily realistic in the real world. However, it turns out this is more like a super drug that can heal wounds, give us energy, and help us see the world in a more positive way.
And far from being an easy out, this take real courage to open ourselves with tenderness and generosity towards what is often a tough world.
It is estimated that someone, somewhere on our planet is practicing this technique at every minute of everyday. You are invited to do your bit and take it up, uncovering and cultivating a little more love into our world.
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