Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right intention includes abandoning ill-will and cultivating goodwill (metta, also known as loving kindness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many ways to practice metta. You may be familiar with using phrases directed toward a benefactor, self, friend, neutral person, difficult person, and all beings. (See this post<\/a> from 2021 for a discussion on this practice.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s also a practice to radiate kindness to beings in all directions. (This post<\/a> from 2019 gives some context on this practice.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pascal Auclair leads a beautiful kindness practice, which uses phrases, but in the context of renunciation – letting go of our judgments about self and other to allow kindness to flow. Here’s a meditation from 2019 (30 minutes): In whatever way you choose to practice, notice this intention to let go of ill-will in order to cultivate goodwill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With good wishes, Dear Friends, Right intention includes abandoning ill-will and cultivating goodwill (metta, also known as loving kindness). There are many ways to practice metta. You may be familiar with using phrases directed toward a benefactor, self, friend, neutral person, difficult person, and all beings. (See this post from 2021 for a discussion on this practice.) There’s also a practice\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[355],"tags":[161,41,196,358],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2024","tag-eightfold-path","tag-metta","tag-pascal-auclair","tag-right-intention"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/www.dharmaseed.org\/talks\/59924<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"