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2005-01-05 Difficulties In Opening the Heart—Hindrances To Metta 60:30
Donald Rothberg
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-11 Transforming The World Through Metta 60:20
Sylvia Boorstein
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How keeping a resolutely loving heart is the ultimate self protection and has the potential for changing the world. Stories of people who coupled the practice of good will with working for social change -- Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Maha Ghosananda.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-12-07 Self-Knowledge 64:57
Rodney Smith
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Is your meditation directed toward learning about who you are? What areas do you shy away from paying attention to yourself? Where are you self-protected? Do you feel the pain associated with those areas? Become increasingly aware of one of those areas and see what difference bare attention (caring attention) makes to that pain. Offer that area metta to ease the pain of looking. The pain will ease in direct proportion to your understanding of it, and understanding is achieved through direct observation.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2004-11-23 Wholeness and Healing through Generosity 62:13
Rodney Smith
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Notice how frequently you second-guess your generosity. You may have the desire to be generous but you let it pass without acting. This week act upon any impulse to be generous: if you have the thought to give something to someone, do not delay or second-guess the impulse. Give. Each time you open the Internet this week begin by going to thehungersite.com and offer a free donation to all the similar sites listed on that web page. Say metta phrases to each disadvantaged group as you make the offering. May all being have sufficient food; may all beings be free of breast cancer.... Feel the pain associated with each category of people and wish them well. Explore the relationship between feeling pain for another and generosity. Does the pain motivate you to move towards or away from giving? Notice your meditative posture and see if the chest and shoulders are fully open when you sit. How does your posture affect your mind? As you move through the day notice your posture when you feel selfish or irritable. Notice it when you feel generous and confident. When you feel selfish and closed down to generosity adjust your posture to a more open stance and see if that has any effect on your state of mind.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2004-11-23 Metta Guided Meditation 34:05
Shaila Catherine
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Guided meditation, meditation instructions
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Featured Guided Meditations

2004-11-17 17. Metta Chanting 3:20
Ariya B. Baumann
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Perth, Australia :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2004-11-02 02. Living in the Shade of Metta 68:57
Ariya B. Baumann
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Perth, Australia :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2004-10-26 Metta Meditation 6:16
Joseph Goldstein
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-10-14 Deep Love 54:28
Christopher Titmuss
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Deep love (metta) belongs to the formless and flows into our roles. The flow of this love transcends the situation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2004-10-12 Abiding In Metta 44:10
Steven Smith
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Moving from the Buddha's original way of teaching Loving-Kindness -- calling it up and abiding in it, then pervading it out to all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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