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2025-02-28 Intro to Lovingkindness class 2 63:28
Dawn Neal
Homework for this class is: Daily meditation: 15-20 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced. --At least 2/3 metta for easy being/benefactor & self. (start with easy being if it’s helpful). --Up to 1/3 mindfulness (or end with a bit of mindfulness). --If it gets challenging, return to where it’s easy. 2. Micro-practice: Stop, notice, appreciate, kindness/positive regard for self or others: Appreciation, gratitude, or inspiration as a form of mindfulness. If you don’t notice in daily life, recall/write down a few in the evening. Due to a recording error, the second mini lecture was not recorded. The topic was the Buddhist and Scientific rationales for cultivating lovingkindness for oneself. The scientific study referenced is entitled "Open Hearts Build Lives," by Barbara Fredrickson, et al. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-0XLchUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-0XLchUAAAAJ:geHnlv5EZngC
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-02-27 Introduction to Brahmaviharas 1 (Mettā) 1:32:17
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-02-27 18 instructions and meditation: Finding the loveliness of the breath 41:08
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping 45:38
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, including thoughts, emotions and mind-states 36:04
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 14 instructions and meditation: Exploring citta, heart-mind 55:21
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 Freeing the Heart from Enmity: Metta for the Difficult 60:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Instructions and guided meditation on how to practice metta for those with whom we have conflict, difficulty, or struggle.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-25 Basic Practice Instructions - Meditation 31:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-25 12 instructions and meditation: Feeling-tones or vedanā 32:48
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 Guided Meditation: Sitting in Integrity 44:14
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

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