Meditation on friendliness and kindness

Reflections on Friendliness – Guided Mettā Meditation

Mettā is also a verb which means that one must manifest and embody kindness and friendliness in all of one’s bodily and verbal actions.

Guided mettā meditation.

What is special about a 9-day Loving Kindness retreat? The form of Buddhist practice helps cultivate positive qualities of friendliness and kindness, it helps purify old habits of defensiveness and hostility, and it help cultivate samadhi (concentration).

The practice of radiating friendliness - includes walking instructions.

Metta can be seen as turning toward with friendliness. This talk explores how to turn toward charged experiences.

Mettā is an unconditional benevolence and friendliness for all living beings under all circumstances

We start with a story and poem related to developing metta. Then there is an overview of the nature of metta and metta practice, and how the intention to manifest metta—good will, care, and a powerful friendliness—has many resonances with the core intentions of other spiritual traditions, often expressed in terms of manifesting love. We explore how we train in developing the intention to manifest metta and how we see what gets in the way. We look at several of the challenges of metta practice and how to work with them.

Instructions on how to work with the category of "dear friend"