Reading the Cowherd Sutta illustrates how we need the sangha as a refuge and the practice of metta--as well as right effort, renunciation, right intention, equanimity and compassion--in order for us to come to safety.
Insight into our interconnectedness with all of life can come through the deepening practice of metta. It can also be known through the emptiness of self.
This talk has to do with understanding how metta practice develops concentration. Metta practice also sometimes exposes challenging states of mind that we learn to be more mindful of within the safe and gentle container of LovingKindness.
This talk discusses the near and far enemies of Metta - attachment and aversion; as well as developing lovingkindness for a dear friend. Date is estimated.
