Compassion/Loving “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald Some of us have become estranged from our feelings of compassion and love. We have believed that we had to become so tough and that we had to keep so busy that love and compassion became luxuries we could ill…
Loving Kindness Meditation (Extracted from Encyclopedia of Spirituality – Timothy Freke)
Buddhists cultivate compassion through a meditation practice known as the “metabhavana” or “loving kindness meditaton”. This involves sitting silently with eyes closed for about 20 minutes while succesively bringing to mind someone you find it easy to love, then someone toward whom you feel indifferent, then someone you find difficult to love, and finally yourself….
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