what is your personal metta practice like? is it simply auto-suggestion or chanting? you you feel metta in your heart area?
i'd like to know more.
please share
jc
how do YOU practice metta meditation
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how do YOU practice metta meditation
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Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
It varies. Sometimes It flows freely with a lot of emotional content and feelings of loving kindness. At other times it is more cerebral. More a question of holding people in mind and wishing them well. I am not sure what you mean by feeling metta in my heart...if my second sentence covers it then I do.
The going for refuge is the door of entrance to the teachings of the Buddha.
Bhikku Bodhi.
Bhikku Bodhi.
Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
Have you read Bhante G's Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English?
I practice his method.
I practice his method.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
My practice is based on imagining the sun's light and warmth on my body.
With Metta
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Couldnt you just sit outside in the sun?Rui Sousa wrote:My practice is based on imagining the sun's light and warmth on my body.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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I could, and I do.bodom wrote:Couldnt you just sit outside in the sun?Rui Sousa wrote:My practice is based on imagining the sun's light and warmth on my body.
With Metta
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I wish I had privacy to be able to sit out in the sun. Living in an apartment complex makes it a bit difficult. Maybe I will give your practice a try!Rui Sousa wrote:I could, and I do.bodom wrote:Couldnt you just sit outside in the sun?Rui Sousa wrote:My practice is based on imagining the sun's light and warmth on my body.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
I am doing metta as a complete meditation as taught by Bhikkhu Sujato. He teaches the Metta meditation method taught by his teacher Ajahn Maha Chatchai...it's really good....
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I agree, I really like his style.adeh wrote:I am doing metta as a complete meditation as taught by Bhikkhu Sujato. He teaches the Metta meditation method taught by his teacher Ajahn Maha Chatchai...it's really good....
Guided metta meditations and talks about this style can be found here: Metta Meditation and The Practice of Metta
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
I dont do it often, but sometimes if im feeling anger i make a point to do it every day. Mostly tho i do on the bus because rude people piss me off and old, sad or sick people make me sad. So i send them a little love.
I use this method:
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I use this method:
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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig
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Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
I practice roughly according to the method of Sayadaw U Pandita as outlined in his book "The State of Mind Called Beautiful." Repeating mantras mentally for directional pervasion of metta and karuna.
And repeated for each of the ten directions, north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, above, and below.May all beings be free from emnity and danger,
be free from mental suffering,
be free from physical suffering,
be able to look after themselves happily.
May all breathing beings be free from emnity and danger,
be free from mental suffering,
be free from physical suffering,
be able to look after themselves happily
May all beings who have been born be free from emnity and danger,
be free from mental suffering,
be free from physical suffering,
be able to look after themselves happily
May all individuals be free from emnity and danger,
be free from mental suffering,
be free from physical suffering,
be able to look after themselves happily
May all those contained in bodies be free from emnity and danger,
be free from mental suffering,
be free from physical suffering,
be able to look after themselves happily
May all female beings... male beings... noble ones... non-noble ones... celestial beings... human beings... beings in woeful states...
Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
[quote="jcsuperstar"]what is your personal metta practice like? is it simply auto-suggestion or chanting? you you feel metta in your heart area?
i'd like to know more.
please share
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None of the above. I first get a loving kindness feeling that I have for a favorite person. I use the words "May she be at peace. etc." to match up that feeling with the words. Then, I shift my attention around while trying to keep that feeling of loving kindness by using the words. When I lose that feeling, I go back to my original subject, get in touch with the feeling and then return to where I left off.
Its all about feelings not words but the words usually help. Sometimes I don't even use the words, just the feeling of loving kindness.
jack
i'd like to know more.
please share
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None of the above. I first get a loving kindness feeling that I have for a favorite person. I use the words "May she be at peace. etc." to match up that feeling with the words. Then, I shift my attention around while trying to keep that feeling of loving kindness by using the words. When I lose that feeling, I go back to my original subject, get in touch with the feeling and then return to where I left off.
Its all about feelings not words but the words usually help. Sometimes I don't even use the words, just the feeling of loving kindness.
jack
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Re: how do YOU practice metta meditation
Don't do it enough.- usually once a week. I direct metta to 10 directions using a similar contemplation to the one above. I guess at other times I try to get away from aversive mindstates- which I feel is as important as developing metta.
With Metta
Karuna
Mudita
& Upekkha
Karuna
Mudita
& Upekkha