Sharon Salzberg ~ Metta, the Practice of Loving Kindness

[@lyndalou2892]

Sharon is brilliant, witty, kind and wonderful..........

[@krishnapartha]

What a beautiful human being. I am so thankful for her sharing. 🙏🏾❤️🔥

[@Buttergirla]

Everythi2this woman SPOKE is TRUTH. I didnt even have to be taught this! I GOT this info from within me!! Months I hear her speak and my spirit is in agreement and my inner teaching is CONFIRMED! PRAISE GOD!

[@yehudahhachassid6191]

Mindfulness & Meditation are powerful truths taught by Lord Buddha-Anagarika Munindra taught the mantra, " May I Be Well. May I Be Happy . " Thank you for a very inspirational talk ! May All Beings Be happy ! Peace & Love !

[@mattshepherd4861]

A truly remarkable talk. Sharon is an amazing conduit for the teaching. 🙏

[@denissaulnier3345]

Thank you Sharon. i really appreciated.

[@centrino538]

Thank you Sharon 😊

[@Ernstmithrandir]

Thank you so much for sharing this video

[@evathurfjell6965]

Thank you! Paying it forward to a friend in Vietnam

[@名誉ために日本人天の祖先]

Lovingkindness for the Vietnamese people, may they always worship pleasingly at Bai Dinh Temple and have beautiful forests to be thankful for, loving kindness nature will provide the Vietnamese with what they need, they don't depend on government for food, because the earth is kind to them, loving kindness because the corrupt businesses and greedy destroyers will never go to Vietnam and the evil intentions and desires will not fill the Vietnamese people. There will be miracles of heart there, not crimes Loving kindness meditation for Buddhists in vietnam If someone in Vietnam is trying to write an insightful idea, a new concept may they not be forced into censorship or pushed around, in other words may the chakras be balanced and exceptional. May the Vietnamese not be seen as impolite by outsiders they may encounter in their travels and discourse, and most importantly may they be able to remain at peace in Vietnam and bring peace to others if possible, loving kindness for old wisdom of Vietnamese

[@solarhydrowind]

1:11:58 wrote "woke up!" in my abandoned to cellphone diary... Started humming to myself and imagining how to make my space 🌌 more useful, so i can be awake in ThIS world 🕊️🌍🌏🌎

[@communicating123]

such simple but profound lesson.

[@anonymousprivate116]

Metta practice is so awesome :) I also really like deep Zen as taught at Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery. It is something that really awakens you!

[@dromgarvan]

Many Thanks.

[@NewEarth25]

That is a great pith instruction, "feel your breath'; it brought me out of my obsessive thinking now

[@slowwco]

Sharon Salzberg quote highlights from this video: “Like many people, I come from a family with a great deal of suffering, conflict, loss. And, like for many people, this was never ever spoken about, and so I didn't know what to do with all of those feelings inside of me. I felt very alone, very isolated.” “Here was the Buddha saying right out loud, ‘There is suffering in life.’ It sounds so depressing in popular misunderstanding, but it was very freeing to say, ‘Let's acknowledge this, let's try to relate to this-not alone and in isolation but as a community of beings who all face this.’” “Sometimes we're so distracted we can hardly even notice the great things that are coming our way.” “We hardly pay attention to what we do have because we're fixated, we're obsessed, on what we don't have.” “There was a possibility to radically alter my life by learning how to actually experience pleasure and joy freely and completely without that extra thing we tend to do of comparing or trying to hold on.” “Feel my breath? I came all the way to India! Where's the magical, esoteric, fantastic technique that's going to change my whole life? Feel my breath? I could have stayed in Buffalo to feel my breath. And, then I thought how hard can this be? And, it was like whoa, this is not so easy.” “Most of us are fairly scattered, distracted, kind of all over the place-not in every area of our life maybe, but at least in some.” “The process of concentration is a process of gathering-we gather all that scattered energy and attention, and we bring it together. We rest, we settle.” “You don't have to believe anything in order to feel your breath. You don't have to call yourself a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or reject anything else. If you're breathing, you can be meditating.” “An amazing moment in the whole process: we've been distracted, we've been lost, we've been scattered, maybe we've fallen asleep, we’re just gone-and then comes the magic moment when we realize, ‘Oh it's been quite some time since I last felt a breath’. That's the moment that is really profound because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of chastising ourselves, and blaming ourselves, and condemning ourselves, and feeling like we're a failure, that's the moment when we have the opportunity to gently let go … and with great compassion for ourselves, bring our attention back to the feeling of the breath.” “To understand this training is to understand differently. It's about learning how to let go more gently, learning how to begin again with more kindness toward ourselves. That's the life lesson we actually want. We want in our day-to-day life to make a mistake and be able to begin again, to get lost and be able to begin again, to stray from our chosen course and be able to begin again, to lose sight of our aspiration and be able to begin again … The healing is in the return, learning how to begin again. That's resiliency, that's open-heartedness, that's understanding the truth of change and transparency, that's actualizing our potential.” “The practice of mindfulness really means paying attention to all of our experience without the intrusion of so much bias, grasping, aversion, delusion, holding on, pushing away, fear, projecting into the future-so that as we relinquish all of these habits we can be with our experience in a much more clear, free, and open way. And, that is how insight or understanding develops.” “Mindfulness means not just knowing what your experience is, but it's knowing in a certain way so that one isn't grasping or pushing away-taking an interest in your experience, and that is how one comes to learn so much more deeply the nature of one's emotions, and thought patterns, and body, and the truth of things like change which are revealed as we pay careful attention.” “Lovingkindness and compassion grow through insight, through wisdom, through seeing more clearly, understanding things as they actually are especially based on a truth of interconnection-understanding that our lives have something to do with one another, that we live in an interconnected universe.” “What happens over there doesn't nicely stay over there. It ripples out and affects us over here. And, what we do, what we care about, where we put our energy, matters because our actions also ripple out over there.” “It just happens to be true that we live in an interconnected universe. Our lives all impact one another, and if we understand this deeply, the response of the heart to this inclusion is lovingkindness.” “Lovingkindness doesn't mean you like everybody, it doesn't mean you approve of everybody, but you know deeply our lives are linked-all to one another … We can respond to one another from that place of understanding. That's lovingkindness.” “We're all brought here by a confluence of conditions, relationships conversations, encounters. So many beings are part of this moment in time. They are part of every moment in time. That's what this moment is-the coming together of all these conditions.” “Every moment of life, every element of life, is part of this web of connection. So, who all helped bring you here?” “Understanding that truth of life that we're part of this greater web, this network, that is very much the sense of lovingkindness.”

[@ishma2100]

Great work

[@ElleTltrainismyname]

I'm "stuck in an airplane" with my dad. Thank you for your helpful perspective.

[@Kat.Tha.Bat__777]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

"bonté pour le peuple de France , qu'ils soient heureux, qu'ils soient en bonne santé, peuvent leurs forêts et de la faune soient préservés, et peuvent ils ont beaucoup de grands artistes et écrivains, peuvent ils ont toujours la richesse dont ils ont besoin." - USA 77 ****** "loving kindness for the people of France, may they be happy, may they be healthy, may their forests and wildlife be preserved, and may they have many great artists and writers, may they always have the wealth they need." - USA 77

[@thiagolima7418]

🙏

[@anuvata]

If she loves herself so much, how could she do this to herself?

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

bonté, si vous êtes en France , peut vous être en mesure de comprendre(loving kindness, if you are in France, may you be able to understand)bonté pour mon grand-père Calvin , la bonté aimante pour ma grand-mère Cozette(loving kindness for my grandfather Calvin, loving kindness for my grandmother Cozette) 77

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