Joyful Heart: Exploring the Four Immeasurables
Session 1 - Loving-Kindness
David Oromith · 84 minutes · recorded June 9, 2024
Two guided loving kindness practices: a short reflection on our own good qualities, then the full meditation, in which we extend well wishes from ourselves through a loved one, a stranger and someone difficult. David explains loving kindness as a wish rather than a feeling, distinguishes it from attachment dressed as love and from malice, and tells the story of the Dalai Lama's puzzlement at Western self-contempt.
Anger and aversion Attachment and craving Compassion (karuna) Loving kindness (metta) The four immeasurables