Discover Compassion Meditation
Loving Kindness
Glen Svensson · 78 minutes
Loving kindness, maitri, is defined by Glen Svensson as an aspiration rather than an emotion: the wish for ourselves and others to have happiness and its causes. Two guided practices: in the first we cultivate it for ourselves through reflections on our own deepest aspirations, and in the second we extend it in stages to a friend, a stranger and a difficult person. Glen distinguishes pleasure from genuine happiness and names its causes as ethics, concentration and wisdom.
Anger and aversion Attachment and craving Depression and low mood Genuine happiness and wellbeing The bodhisattva path Compassion (karuna) Loving kindness (metta) The four immeasurables