A Bodhicitta Practice -- Pema Chödrön
The word for loving-kindness in Sanskrit is maitri. Maitri is also translated as unconditional friendliness. So each time you say to yourself “thinking,” you are cultivating that unconditional friendliness toward whatever arises in your mind.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
After many repetitions, strong love for oneself can be established. Then the loving-kindness practice is systematically extended to others by categories. First we visualize and offer love to our benefactors, then loved ones, friends, neutral people, and eventually difficult people, even our enemies. Next, we extend the well-wishing of loving-kindne
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WIDENING OUR CIRCLE OF CARING A highly accomplished Tibetan meditation master studied in Richie’s lab once said that one hour spent practicing loving-kindness toward a difficult person is equivalent to one hundred hours of the same toward a friend or loved one. The generic loving-kindness meditation takes us through an ever-widening circle of the k
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