Meditation Practices for Healing and Well-Being
Meditation Practices Bring Me Back To My True Home
One of the most beautiful teachings of the Buddha was his teaching that true love knows no boundaries. This idea was expressed in the metta sutta as a mother’s love for her child: Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings. [...]
Metta is the Pali word for loving kindness. Pali is an ancient Indian language in which the Buddhist scriptures were first written down. The video is a lovely chanting on metta. The English translation of the chant goes like this: May I be free from enmity and danger; May I be free from mental suffering; May [...]
This video presents a nice loving-kindness chant. It is chanted by the famous vipassana meditation teacher, S. N. Goenka at the end of each session of his 10 day meditation retreats. Metta is the Pali (ancient Indian language) word for loving-kindness. Together with compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity or inclusiveness, they make of the four [...]
This is another quote from Weekly Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das. The subject is upekkha or equanimity, which is one of the four brahma viharas or “immeasurable minds” or “sublime abodes” that lead to liberation. What are the other three brahma viharas? Metta or loving kindness, karuna or compassion, and mudita or [...]
This online interview with one of my mentors inspired me to share it with you, my readers. I have decided to withhold the name of my mentor for the time being. This is quite different from all of my other posts, so please have a little patience. Interview With One Of My Mentors The text [...]
Laura Silver writes on TabletMag.com about a group of Jews doing meditation practices. One of their practices is loving kindness meditation Jewish style called chesed meditation. Loving kindness is the translation of chesed from the Hebrew. In Buddhist meditation practices, loving kindness meditation is known as metta practice. There will be other posts for you [...]
Recent scientific research has shown that meditation practices can cause your brain cells to grow and make you smarter. This research is validating what yogis and meditators have know for millennia. The scientific evidence reported by Richard Crown in a document from the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness is that …meditation actually grows grey [...]
Metta (loving kindness, friendliness) is one of the meditation practices for improving your self image. It dates back almost 2,600 years, and it is still relevant today. In traditional metta practice, one begins with practicing loving kindness for oneself by repeating a series of phrases like these (this is one set that I actually use [...]
Jeff Bridges was featured yesterday on my Facebook page here. It was in a quote from Tricycle Daily Dharma in which he said, "You can spend a lot of … [Read More...]
A poem by Nolan Brian Ellis: Revelations in the House of God Why waste a life in wanderlust? The flow will dry and turn to dust, To … [Read More...]
For several months now, I have been encouraging you to learn how to embrace your anger. What does it mean to "embrace your anger?" When anger … [Read More...]
Occasions of hatred are certainly never settled by hatred. They are settled by freedom from hatred. This is the eternal law. -- Dhammapada … [Read More...]
The words of wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das for this week are from the Dalai Lama. Today the Dalai Lama said something funny during his … [Read More...]
Our students at Mindfulness in Healing, are often assigned a task to write down something that they are grateful for each day. In this way, they learn … [Read More...]
In this article, I am going to review Dr. Philippe Goldin's Google Talk from March 1, 2008. I have already posted the video as Meditation … [Read More...]
