We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
SHARON SALZBERGThe key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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