Metta (lovingkindness) meditation challenge. For anyone interested, join me starting October 1 - October 31. Any amount of time (Iāll be starting with 20 mins). Iāll be sharing some thoughts, sensations, anything that comes up. 1/2
Lovingkindness, a heart-centered posture of curiosity and the assumption of positive intent. I still believe that literal magic happens when two people can hold this posture in while oriented toward one another.
It was so obvious to me that children deserve infinite patience, but it occurred to me that from God's (the Ultimate) perspective, we are all childrenā limited and loveable. I developed this practice of visualizing the whole- systems, contradiction, trauma, experience, and practicing lovingkindness
No racism! No homophobia! No believing that nation over there has a right to continue to exist! Its people must be ethnically cleansed and its land given to the neighbors! This is justice and lovingkindness!
Itās true. Kindness lives beyond the moment. And, what is even more significant, kindness multiplies. Good Morning šø Tuesday āļø š¤ Have a day of lovingkindness and live beyond the moment. The power of love lives forever~
I want to be MEAN and PETTY about a THING but I'm trying to rise above. LOVINGKINDNESS TOWARD ALL LIVING THINGS. or something.
Just read your Dear Paula. I only met her once, briefly, in the green room after doing The Big Breakfast. Such energy, focus and professional presence. What you wrote shimmers with such warmth and lovingkindness. I'm sorry you, and all who loved her, lost her.
What I mean by this is that there are metaphysical/spiritual *substances* created through Heart and Spirit that are qualitatively experienced and shared: Lovingkindness, joy, peace, patience, faith, for example. These are not mental concepts, but metaphysical substances.
a newsletter do Richard Rohr hoje foi ao mesmo tempo uma banda de limĆ£o espremida diretamente em cima da ferida permanente do cuore e um bandaid nas perebas da alma: "That refusal to be forgiven is a form of pride. (...) Only the humble person, the little one, can live in and after mercy."
It has become bizarre, nay, dissonant, to me to read in the liturgy the Prayer for the State of Israel, followed by the Prayer for Peace when policy presents a paradox.
