A Lovingkindness Meditation with Sylvia Boorstein

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The beloved Buddhist-Jewish teacher Sylvia Boorstein led this impromptu, short meditation as part of her On Being conversation with Krista Tippett (“What We Nurture”) at a gathering in Michigan in 2011. It was a magical experience in which the audience fully participated.

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0:00.0	The Buddha taught mindfulness meditation,
0:02.5	which is a practice of paying attention,
0:04.8	moment to moment in a balanced way.
0:07.2	He also gave instructions to, at all times,
0:11.6	cultivate a loving heart.
0:13.6	There's a particular sermon called the sermon on impartial love.
0:20.2	Sometimes it's called the sermon,
0:21.6	the Buddha's teaching on kindness.
0:24.0	And it says that towards everyone we should wish,
0:28.6	may all beings be at ease.
0:30.2	And some translations it says may all beings be happy.
0:33.7	But may all beings be at ease, whatever living beings there may be.
0:38.7	And then it goes through all the categories of living beings
0:41.3	far and near and those you know and those you don't know.
0:46.0	And I've done it as a practice now for 25 years.
0:49.1	And I teach it mostly because I like it very much.
0:52.5	And over the years, I've come to appreciate
0:55.0	that it sounds like very much like a prayer for other people.
0:58.0	May these people be well on these and these and these.
1:00.7	And it is indeed.
1:02.1	But I actually think it's most crucially a prayer for my own well-being
1:07.9	because there is no time that I feel safer or happier
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