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!
Category: metta
Unveiling :: Tending prickly relationships
Is there are prickly person in your life? This dharma post will help you to skillfully mend your relationship or let it go.
Face the ocean!
Whatever’s happening in the world or in our lives, we can greet this moment with clarity and compassion.
Unveiling :: Cultivating a limitless heart
Exploring the roots of lovingkindness practice and cultivating a limitless heart.
Unveiling :: Thoughts of aging have you tied in knots?
Are you afraid of aging or is something else involved? A rich exploration into aging well.
Unveiling :: Cultivating Peace
When we’re fighting each other, it’s because we can’t see each other as intrinsically interconnected expressions of life. Instead, we focus on our perceived differences and weave threads of assumptions, opinions, projections, stereotypes, etc. into thought veils that blind us.
Don’t turn away
How do we cope with all that’s happening in the world, taking care of ourselves without turning away?
Metta for this moment in history
Before we can offer infinite lovingkindness we need to learn how to receive it.
Being a friend in times of need
When someone is suffering, what can we say or do to help? The wise women of my weekly sangha offer advice from years of experience. And the Buddha has a few guidelines too.
The power of lovingkindness to bring justice
Anger activates action, but lovingkindness creates real meaningful change. This post explores just how, and why it’s so important right now.
STEPHANIE NOBLE 