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2025-06-30 Loving Kindness Meditation 31:09
Jean Esther
In this 2 part guided meditation, we begin with recieving the loving care from someone who loves us in an uncomplicated way. Which could, include our pets, a spiritual figure, a teacher, etc. The 2nd part is offering love and care to ourselves including what we find difficult in ourselves.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat – 25TR

2025-06-09 Meditation on Loving-Kindness 21:30
Ayya Santussika
Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 5:38
Ayya Santussika
A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 May Loving Kindness Arise (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 24:43
Emily Horn
Guided practice "May Loving Kindness Arise"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-04-08 Loving kindness to all beings 26:46
Tim Geil
Bring the vastness of the earth and spaciousness of air in offering metta to all aspects of ourselves and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-02 The Courage to Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:24
Oren Jay Sofer
In this talk from the first night of a weeklong silent retreat, Oren Jay Sofer explores mettā (lovingkindness) as both refuge and strength. Framing the Buddhist path as a practice of wise relationship, he offers several ways to cultivate mettā, inviting us to consider what it means to relate to life with warmth, steadiness, and care—even in a world of change and uncertainty.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-03-13 Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty 1:11:50
Dawn Neal
Introduction to Metta (lovingkindness) - Week Four Homework: Daily meditation: Offer kindness/goodwill to an easy being (or benefactor) & self, then someone or some part of you that you find difficult. Please practice 20 minutes or more a day. Remember, it is always okay to return to a being that is easy. It can also be very skillful to switch to mindfulness. Integrating mindfulness into metta practice can increase wisdom. This can be done by noticing what is and isn’t metta, without judging –or buying into–other emotions or experiences. In daily life, notice when Metta is present and when it isn’t. What are conditions that help it arise? Decrease? Appreciating the wish for metta, being interested in it, attending to it, helps to strengthen it.
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-03-07 Lovingkindness Practice - Meditation 33:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-07 Lovingkindness Practice - Talk 42:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-06 Intro to Lovingkindness class 3 1:20:52
Dawn Neal
Week Three Homework: 1. Daily meditation: 15-30 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced. At least 2/3 to easy being or benefactor and self, then someone neutral. Experiment with single words/short phrases or gestures to build stability/concentration Always okay to return to where it’s easy, or switch to mindfulness. 2. Micro-practice: offer pulses of kindness, privately, to strangers or neutral persons in the course of each day
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

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