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30 Oct 2024
Day 29 - notice and let go
Did you sit today? I did. As did Violet aka Penelope Shnuffalopagous in “Lovingkindess.”
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26 Oct 2024
Day 24 & 25 - Sympathetic joy
“This week we’re going to practice meditations that allow us to extend lovingkindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy to everyone on our subway car.. looking for the good doesn’t
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26 Oct 2024
mean we ignore the bad, or that we condone behavior that we consider unhealthy or dangerous. But if we fixate only on what’s wrong … we’ll naturally feel more and more estranged.”
This is not easy so if it proves too hard, return back to someone neutral or yourself.
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23 Oct 2024
Day 23 - Still here.
Just because I haven’t posted, doesn’t mean I haven’t meditated. This week we explore inviting the world at large in an all comprehensive lovingkindness bomb.The image that has come up often during this challenge has
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23 Oct 2024
2/ been that of medicine Buddha - known as the doctor who cures suffering using the medicine of his teachings. So, let the medicine Buddha heal the world. May all beings be happy and healthy. May…
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23 Oct 2024
3/ they have love, warmth and affection. May they be protected from harm, and free from fear. May they be alive, engaged and joyful.
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18 Oct 2024
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Day 18 - Help me, help you.
Including difficult people in my lovingkindness practice is probably as hard as steadying the mind. Harder. Harder because it’s not about them, it’s about me.
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18 Oct 2024
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My hurt feelings. My animosity toward a perceived slight or judgement or whatever. So this time around I tried something different. I reminded myself that
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18 Oct 2024
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everybody wants to be happy. Yes, even the people who luxuriate in the slimy putrid malevolent oils of hatred want to be happy. Happy, not jolly. Happy as in free from suffering. #mettaOctober #commit2sit #virtualsangha
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18 Oct 2024
Day 17 - love your enemies
“Every person has the potential to be unpleasant and harmful just as every person has the potential to be pleasant and helpful.” Love Your Enemies - S. Salzberg, R. Thurman
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18 Oct 2024
Who are your outer enemies? ( perceived or actual) Who are your inner enemies (anger, hatred)? Can you include them in your lovingkindness practice?
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17 Oct 2024
Day 16 - difficult people
To be kind is to empathetically recognize that another person desires to be happy and to avoid suffering, and then to act accordingly. When we’re kind we act in ways that support another person’s
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17 Oct 2024
overcome resentments and to tune into our inherent capacity for kindness. It’s also interesting in that it can make a huge difference to our lives to let go of anger and ill will, and instead to be kind.
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17 Oct 2024
So if we’re cultivating kindness toward someone that causes harm, we’re really wishing that they cease causing harm.
If this proves to be too difficult, return to wishing lovingkindness to yourself.
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17 Oct 2024
Day 16 - difficult people
To be kind is to empathetically recognize that another person desires to be happy and to avoid suffering, and then to act accordingly. When we’re kind we act in ways that
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also interesting in that it can make a huge difference to our lives to let go of anger and ill will, and instead to be kind.
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17 Oct 2024
So if we’re cultivating kindness toward someone that causes harm, we’re really wishing that they cease causing harm.
If this proves to be too difficult, return to wishing lovingkindness to yourself.
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