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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The aim of our practice is to develop wisdom, love, and skillful action in our lives. We commonly cultivate these capacities separately and then integrate them. In this session, we first explore the nature of Metta, its etymology in words suggesting "friendliness" and "friendship," and the ancient vocation, found in multiple spiritual traditions of cultivating Metta or love or kindness. We then look at the multiple ways of developing Metta, both in formal practice and in daily life, and examine briefly some of the challenges in cultivating Metta. Then we have a guided meditation the last 15 minutes exploring "Radiating Metta," a way of practicing likely closer to how the Buddha taught Metta. We follow this with discussion.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a short introduction to Metta (Lovingkindness) Practice, working with phrases that tend to evoke Metta, kindness, good will, etc. Then there's a 10-minute period of settling (with mindfulness practice), followed by about 20 minutes of Metta Practice, with beings with whom Metta flows well.

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Warm-up and Shibashi 18-movement session of Qi Gong

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Some examples from the suttas where the Buddha talked about metta, each kind act of metta matters

(Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre) Some examples from the suttas where the Buddha talked about metta, each kind act of metta matters

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Other beings are just like me – I am just like others, metta and forgiveness, with metta you become a piece of art

(Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre) Other beings are just like me – I am just like others, metta and forgiveness, with metta you become a piece of art

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short meditation, dharma talk, and group discussion

(Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre) Metta is not restricted to any religion or spiritual tradition, nor to human beings. Metta is like a flower garland, adorning the heart & mind

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation for San Francisco Dharma Collective

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Metta is not restricted to any religion or spiritual tradition, nor to human beings. Metta is like a flower garland, adorning the heart & mind

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre) The cultivation of metta (metta bhavana) needs, care, devotion, time & patience

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies and let sounds wash through us. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence and peace.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Buddhist Studies Week 2

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Buddhist Studies Week 2

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Cittaviveka) How to stay at ease in the world as it is.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Cittaviveka)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) On Dr. King's birthday, we explore three broad areas connecting metta practice, Buddhist wisdom teachings, and other heart practices, with the life and approach of Dr. King: (1) the deep resonance between metta practice and the grounding in love and the beloved community that is central for King; (2) the close parallels between the development of non-reactivity aiming at the end of dukkha in Buddhist practice and the teachings and practices of nonviolent action; and (3) the other aspects of the awakened heart central for Dr. King, including empathy, compassion, forgiveness, joy, and equanimity. Included is the playing of three short recordings of Dr. King speaking.

(Cittaviveka)

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Gratitude and Joy nourish us on the Path.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta is more than a feeling. it is an intention that arises from wisdom... the understadning of inter-being and cause and effect..

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Some reflections about working with the neutral person, also refetred to as the stranger or the friendly stranger.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the intersection of mettā practice and equanimity, in particular how the mettā training process creates and impartiality of mind that is the cornerstone of equanimity. The talk also explores the Buddha's teaching that with the cultivation of mettā no limiting action remains and how the practice naturally reveals the places where the heart is limited and the fruitfulness of investigating the energies in this so-called purification process.

(Cittaviveka)

(Cittaviveka)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta practice offers a radical and yet simple approach and training: To bring kind and wise presence and response to every situation. We incline toward an expansive friendliness, and see what gets in the way of metta. This is an approach centering on kindness and love which finds many echoes in many other spiritual traditions. And yet it can be a very challenging training; we look at a number of the common difficulties of metta practice and how to work with them, particularly distraction and lack of stability of attention, sleepiness and restless energy, difficulty in accessing the kind heart, and the arising of difficult emotions, thoughts, and body-states. As we practice, we integrate mind, heart, and body, increasingly touch our depths and learn how to manifest metta in the world.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Cittaviveka)

(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Walk away from the tigers that have made us run all our lives. Grow, instead, that beautiful space of selfless love deep within. Growth means breaking out of the shell. It hurts. But this is our journey. Trust that it will ripen into greater and greater insight. And in that unfolding, discover when things fall apart, true wisdom arises from the ashes.

(Cittaviveka)

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Cittaviveka)

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

(Cittaviveka)