With mettā, things are no longer seen as personal, there’s not me and you, ...

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Bhikkhu Bodhi as always so kind, courageous and wise

2-minute speech at the Love Forward Together Mass People's Assembly in Raleigh, North Carolina 🇺🇸

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Möge ich ruhig sein.
Möge ich gesund sein.
Möge ich sicher sein.
Möge mein Herz leicht sein.

May I be peaceful.
May I be healthy.
May I be safe.
May my heart be at ease.

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The Power of Loving Kindness | The Buddha’s Teaching on Mettā & the Brahmavihāras - Ayya Brahmavara

https://youtu.be/jSLnxqLXI2U?si=VtKrMV5cRGaTWiw7

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Graciously receiving kindness is among the greatest ways to give, because the giver of kindness benefits through your receiving.

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One thing I love about being on The #Fedi is the many opportunities to find sympathetic joy with other folks.

In my flavor of #Buddhism, it's part of the dedication of merit that we say at the end of each meditation session.

One of the dedications is basically the four wishes of #Metta practice, kinda gussied up with more words. Here those are:

May you be safe.
May you be happy.
May you be healthy.
May you be at ease.

There are the basics, whittled down to about as few words as possible.

In the dedication we use, the one about sympathetic joy goes something like this:

"May all beings experience joy in the happiness of other beings."

There are so many fun opportunities to do that with pals and even with complete strangers here.

To me, it seems it's almost always accepted for what it is, rather than perceived as a societal sort of performance, jealousy, or even sarcasm.

I love it!

I can actually express joy and appreciation to folks for their stories, puns, discoveries, food, travels, books, photos, gardens, cats, dogs, bunnies, birds, bugs, you name it, and it's actually taken as joy and appreciation.

That helps spread joy and appreciation, and wow, does the world need more of that.

Even though both of those things are limitless, we tend to forget that and try to hoard them as if they are in short supply. (Consumer culture forces us to believe in the scarcity mindset, too.)

Thanks, everyone, for being so awesome.

It’s still metta monday, folks: ❤️❤️🙏🏼

May all beings be free from resentment and conflict.
May all beings be free from physical suffering.
May all beings be free from mental suffering.
May all beings be free from danger,
and may their bodies and minds be at peace.

~ -VENERABLE BHIKKHU PANNAKARA

#metta #peace #mindfulness #blessings

*photo is a screenshot of the blessings here.

Global Metta Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgVyMcEa-Q

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Updated time for the historic, unprecedented Global Metta Meditation, today approximately 10.30pm GMT

https://dhammacetiya.com/walk-for-peace/global-meditation/

On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/cvUWjrNgbes?si=3_Yyjbg7CiPebovC

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Dear unopposed Friends,

Most of my #meditation is based around breathing.
#Breathing in positive thinking, emotions and goodwill.
#Amplifying those expressions
and #Radiating them on the out breath.

This #Positive expression in #Buddhism is called #Metta.

A good way to seize the day before breakfast.

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