Offering kindness to self and others

A Receptive, protective, guided meditation of loving kindness

This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on May 11, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” This is the seventh talk in the series on Parami or The Ten Perfections.

This guided meditation was offered on May 11, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”

Radiating metta to all beings

A guided meditation touching into each of the Brahma Viharas - the Divine Abodes~ metta - kindness karuna - compassion mudita - appreciative joy upekkha - equanimity

Welcome and Introduction to the Session; Settling Meditation, Teachings, Guided Meditation.

This is the John Makransky - Tibetan metta practice of receiving metta from a benefactor

This talk reviewed the Karaniya sutta about why and how we do metta

Following four weeks of Donald's personal retreat, he identifies a number of ways of deepening practice that he experienced and that we might bring into our lives. The invitation is to see what one or two or three ways of deepening resonate and seem to call us to our "next steps." Among the ways of deepening are going on retreats (understood as periods of intensive training), staying in touch with and periodically remembering one's deeper intentions, pausing and stopping regularly, clarifying priorities, the importance of working with the subtle energy body, opening to non-doing in meditation and daily life, integrating awareness and metta, and finding ways of regularly coming back if stuck, caught in reactivity, or lost in thought. The talk is followed by discussion.

This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.