Loving-Kindness Meditation: Five Stages
In this longer version of the classic loving-kindness meditation, Dan guides you through five stages of the practice, offering warmth, love, kindness, and care to a beloved person, yourself, neutral and difficult persons, before expanding your well wishes to all life on Earth. The practice – called metta bhavana in the Buddha's language, Pali – will help you both generate and feel positive mental states like kindness, compassion, love, and generosity of spirit.
In this longer version of the classic loving-kindness meditation, Dan guides you through five stages of the practice, offering warmth, love, kindness, and care to a beloved person, yourself, neutral and difficult persons, before expanding your well wishes to all life on Earth. The practice – called metta bhavana in the Buddha's language, Pali – will help you both generate and feel positive mental states like kindness, compassion, love, and generosity of spirit.
In this longer version of the classic loving-kindness meditation, Dan guides you through five stages of the practice, offering warmth, love, kindness, and care to a beloved person, yourself, neutral and difficult persons, before expanding your well wishes to all life on Earth. The practice – called metta bhavana in the Buddha's language, Pali – will help you both generate and feel positive mental states like kindness, compassion, love, and generosity of spirit.