Practice the loving-kindness meditation exercise on page 93
Describe the exercse. Describe your self discoveries.
As Dasher suggests, loving-kindness doesn't onlty apply to intimate relationships, it applies to all persons. I have tired the exercise more than a few times since this past Saturday. I had to memorize the words in the phrase in order to close my eyes and truely listen to the words in my head.
May all individuals gain freedeom from suffereing. I sort of turned this into a prayer session and made myself think of the people in my personal life with suffereing and as I sadi the words I thought of the person. This was hard for me to do as some of the people in my head are not the nicest people or treated me with any level of loving-kindness, but I continue to forge forward and try the exercise. I repeated the exercise for each group of words and applied the sam application to those same people and all people. Honestly, I have had a very diffiuclt time with this exercise. The 'chatter' in my head will not stop. I know that htis exercise can reverse angre and hatred so I keep on trying. I don't think that this exercise can be mastered immediatly or at least not the first couple of times. This is an ongoing piece of work.
Is anyone else experiencing a diffiuclt time with this exercise?
Sharon
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