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2020-01-13 What Shape Is Your Mind 46:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Unskillful saṇkhāras can be undone in the same way they are formed – through perception. Choose particular tones like friendliness and welcome. Introduce them into the body and ask how it feels. Skillful use of perception and attention can sooth and steady the body’s energy.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2019-12-07 Preparing the Heart and Mind for Practice 63:48
Ajahn Sucitto
An explanation of the opening rituals: what offering respect to the Triple Gem means; what the shrine offerings represent; how the precepts support our intention to train. Closes with the exhortation to make an effort with friendliness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-11-02 Guided Heart Meditation - Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives (includes a short talk) 39:28
Tara Brach
This meditation introduces the domain of “heart practices” and then guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging - knowing that we can never be alone.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-07-18 Metta (Loving Friendliness) | Dharma Talk 47:29
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-04-28 Compassion. Friendliness, Serenity, and Brokenness 59:19
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-04-24 Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body 19:49
Tara Brach
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness. We close with a prayer of loving kindness. "No matter how often the mind drifts, all that really matters is the quality of heart in the way you come back… to come back with interest and friendliness to this moment, then you plant those seeds for whatever else arises."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-02-15 Day 13 - Guided Metta (Loving Kindness) for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:57
Tempel Smith
Inviting our heart to let go of all reservations and conditions to universal friendliness and kindness. This heart which can hold all beings in kindness becomes a refuge for our own well being and the well being of others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2018-06-30 Our Shared Humanity (about Metta) 55:06
Ariya B. Baumann
When we see our shared humanity and understand that we all seek happiness and do not want suffering, the heart’s response is naturally one of kindness and friendliness.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-05-13 Friendliness, Guided Meditation 43:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates

2018-05-11 Shaping our world through the way of looking 61:57
Yuka Nakamura
The talk discusses the role of perception in creating and shaping our experience and the problems that arise due to our lack of awareness regarding the fabricated nature of awareness and the distortions of perception. It presents a way of practice that involves playing and experimenting with different skilful ways of looking. 1. Seeing in terms of the three characteristics, 2. Seeing through the lenses of goodwill and friendliness, 3. Imaginal, creative and symbolic ways of looking.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Four Day Insight Meditation Retreat

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