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10 Strategies to Power Up Your Loving Kindness | Metta Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about supportive conditions to make our Metta Meditation (Loving Kindness) stronger and more successful:
Loving Kindness to Oneself! Make sure you really include yourself when you extend Mettā to all beings
Compassion (Karuna). Use other Divine Abidings (Brahmavihāra) as appropriate, in particular Compassion/Karunā. If we struggle to extend metta to anyone, we may be more successful with Karuna. The most difficult people often have a lot of pain themselves. Once we see that, it's easier to have compassion to them.
Contemplating Karma (Kamma). What I experience is the…
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