Meditation bros - do you guys incorporate loving-kindness into your practice?
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:11 PM Author: vivacious mint heaven
Ive been doing it recently and its 180. Helps a ton in my daily interactions with cretins and having genuine compassion and goodwill for others, especially considering that we are all subject to aging, illness, loss, and death
I feel like its really undervalued/underrepresented in the western meditation scene. First mindfulness was in vogue and
now recently concentration meditation and getting jhanas has been popular. But loving-kindness is where we should start imo
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:23 PM Author: vivacious mint heaven
You start the meditation by offering Metta to yourself:
“May my mind be full with loving-friendliness, compassion, appreciate joy, and equanimity. May I be generous. May I be gentle. May I be grateful. May I be relaxed. May I be happy and peaceful. May I be healthy. May my heart become tender. May my words be pleasing to others.”
The next step is to offer this meditation to people you love, to neutral beings, to difficult people, and finally to all sentient beings.
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:17 PM Author: Bright Fiercely-loyal Elastic Band
if everyone follows the golden rule, the world is a better place for everybody
One Weird Trick
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:28 PM Author: vivacious mint heaven
The Three Trainings – Morality, Concentration, and Wisdom are the sum total of the Buddhist path
Western buddhism started by focusing on Wisdom - seeing reality as it actually is - to gain enlightenment
Recently Concentration - accessing altered states of consciousness - has become more popular
Morality is the only training that has no end. you can reach a limit of wisdom and a limit of concentration but there is no limit of morality. Loving-kindness is a way to facilitate morality
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:24 PM Author: gaped alcoholic corn cake
Tara Brach's lovingkindness and RAIN of self-compassion guided meditations are good for starting the day
best practice is if you have a cup of coffee or something and find a place to sit to listen and just look out the window if you're not one for hands in lap, formal stance
https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-rain-of-self-compassion/
https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditation-loving-kindness/
overall, her workshops and lectures online are 180 - she also uses interesting anecdotes that span more recent to ancient history and has a pretty soothing voice
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:31 PM Author: gaped alcoholic corn cake
labeling the way you just did isn't very meditative, or mindful, either
that's why it's called a practice
everyone starts somewhere - for some, it's creating a space where what you describe will eventually be, some never make it there - on some days you may need guidance, on others you may just focus on your breath
integrating lovingkindness for many people does require guidance or speaking out loud, not just focusing on breath
hth
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:39 PM Author: gaped alcoholic corn cake
I understand what you're saying
sitting silently, breathing and having an awareness of the present moment and noticing what's happening non-judgmentally is very different from sitting silently and listening to a woman talk
I'm not really arguing that they're the same
I'm just saying for some doing the latter can be a way of moving towards even the first step of even 2 minutes of silent meditation
people tend to need guidance when they try something new - you don't seem to have any compassion for that
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:50 PM Author: gaped alcoholic corn cake
yeah, totally get that
you just have a very preachy tone about it
perhaps it upset you that I provided advice ITT since I don't have an established practice to really stand on or reference
I probably could have noted that
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 12:35 PM Author: gaped alcoholic corn cake
some of her lectures have bouts of it, but you're right
again, I'm early in my meditation/mindfulness work so sometimes I return to this kind of experience because it at least helps me carve out the time
I read Davich's 8 minute meditation to try a more formal, silent practice, and I like it
any recommendations?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984577&forum_id=2#36111895)
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