Lovingkindness Meditation

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Tibetan Yoga is being taught at 3PM on Sunday's here at Dragon Seat by Chuck Sullivan a local acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist who has worked with opening energy pathways in the body for many years. This is open to all regardless of physical condition and is done in a chair. There is a meditation and contemplative component to the yoga.

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To read more about cultivating lovingkindness click here. This reference discusses
Permeating the Ten Directions with Loving-kindness, Eleven Methods of Cultivating Loving-kindness according to Metta Sutta, How To Radiate Loving-kindness and more.

Loving-kindness Meditation - Ven. Pannyavaro (MP3 Files)
	loving1.mp3	714 KB	Loving-kindness Meditation Instruction.
	loving2.mp3	482 KB	A Guided Loving-kindness Meditation.

Lovingkindness Meditation

By Ginny Morgan

Lovingkindness meditation (*metta) develops our ability to connect and care for ourselves and others in a way that deeply fulfills our wishes to be happy and peaceful. Through the practice the quality of patience, compassion, and equanimity are cultivated. Because of this, an inner and outer environment of safety is created and our hearts and minds can open with less fear and attachment. The result of this practice is an ever deepening peace of mind, from which the truth of life can be recognized more clearly.

The Categories:

1.Self

2.Dear Friend

3.Mentor

4.Neutral Person

5.Difficult Person

The Phrases:

For self:

May I be peaceful.

May I be happy.

May I live with ease and well being.

May I care for myself joyfully.

May I be free from inner and outer harm.

May I be filled with lovingkindness.

May I come to freedom in this very life.

For others:

Just as I wish to be peaceful, may you be peaceful also.

Just as I wish to be happy, may you be happy.

Just as I wish to live with ease and well being, may you do so also.

Just as I wish to be free from harm, may you be free from harm also.

Just as I wish to be filled with lovingkindness, may you be filled also.

Just as I wish to be free, may you be free also.

*The Pali word mettá (loving Kindness) has two root meanings:

"Gentle" - like a gentle rain that falls upon the earth; it does not choose where it falls, it simply falls without discrimination.

· "Friend" - someone who is constant in our times of happiness and also in our times of unhappiness.

For more information on mettá practice, see "Loving-kindness - the Revolutionary Art of Happiness" by Sharon Salzberg,

and the Who Is My Self by Ven. Ayya Khema, including commentary on the Potthapada Sutta, it discusses the well-known eight stages of meditative absorption.