Coming home to the Four Brahmaviharas
True kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our natural state if we can untangle our attention from the thick blinding veils!
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Match Your Meditation to Your Mood
There’s more than one way to meditate. Different traditions have different practices. Most people think that Vipassana is focused on
Come in out of the wind!
If you can think of a situation or condition that pushes your buttons, setting off an inner rant or a desire to run away or hide, then you know how challenging it can be to maintain a sense of balanced easeful equanimity. One minute we feel fine, life is good, and then something trips us into feeling overwhelmed, out of kilter, struggling to find solid ground.
Envy can be a useful clarifying tool
Envy makes us feel like we’re on the outside looking in, that we don’t belong, that there’s something wrong with
Metta :: Lovingkindness
The ninth Paramita is Metta or lovingkindness. This is a quality we are very familiar with in class because I
BUDDHIST CONCEPTS
There are many schools of Buddhism. Although there is general agreement about Buddhist concepts, there are different names for concepts.
Mudita – The Antidote to Envy
So there you are, walking down the street and you see a toddler splashing joyfully in a puddle or pointing
Uppekka – Be like the sky!
The fourth of the Four Brahma Viharas is Uppekka, the ability to hold all that passes through our current experience
Compassion (Karuna)
We have been talking about metta, loving-kindness. We have been practicing sending it to ourselves, other individuals and out to
Loving Kindness Shifts Relationships
In exploring metta, the practice of sending loving kindness, we come to the challenge of sending it to a ‘difficult’
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