Loving-Kindness
by Sharon Salzberg
The classic Western presentation of metta practice: cultivating goodwill toward yourself, a benefactor, a friend, a neutral person, a difficult person and all beings, with the related practices of compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity. Salzberg's teaching is clear and grounded in her own difficult history.
Read it if…
you want to develop warmth toward yourself and others as a trained skill.
Skip it if…
repeating phrases of goodwill strikes you as pointless; that is the practice.
Three things you will actually use
- Start with yourself; it is the hardest.
- Include the difficult person last and lightly.
- Goodwill is a capacity that grows with use.
Do this first
Repeat four phrases of goodwill for yourself for five minutes: may I be safe, happy, healthy, at ease.
Our verdict
Clear and gentle; the metta classic.
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