lovingkindness practice

Self-compassion is not selfish (Day 35)

In his book, Living Ethically: Advice from Nagarjuna's Precious Garland, Sangharakshita has some advice for those who feel guilty about…

May 16, 2013

Meditation as an act of love

"Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act…

May 8, 2013

Lovingkindness as a path to awakening (Day 25)

The Buddha is recorded as having said: For one who mindfully develops Boundless loving-kindness Seeing the destruction of clinging, The…

May 6, 2013

Lovingkindness meditation: Breaking the boundaries (Day 24)

Yesterday I wrote about how, in the fifth stage of the development of lovingkindness practice where we're cultivating metta for…

May 5, 2013

The expansive mind of lovingkindness (Day 23)

The Buddha's instructions on lovingkindness -- at least those that have been passed on to us -- don't include the…

May 4, 2013

The tender heart of lovingkindness (Day 22)

In previous posts I've suggested an approach to cultivating lovingkindness that begins with contacting our innate lovingkindness. Now the expression…

May 3, 2013

Lovingkindness while driving (Day 21)

When the rubber hits the road is a great time to practice lovingkindness, and I mean literal rubber and a…

May 2, 2013

Make gratitude a practice, really

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., PsychCentral: When we think of what we’re thankful for we often think of the light in our…

May 1, 2013

Metta on the go: 6 simple ways to take lovingkindness off the cushion (Day 17)

For the sixth day of our 100 Days of Lovingkindness, we have a guest post from therapist Ashley Davis Bush.…

April 28, 2013

Love letters to strangers (Day 16)

I've been talking, in these 100 Days of Lovingkindness posts, of ways we can cultivate metta, or lovingkindness. But we…

April 27, 2013