I have a call for you, a call to gentleness.

And these days, it's counterculture, but I think it's why you're here, and I think it's what we're all yearning for.

If you're wanting to find the grace and all of this grittiness of being alive right now, you're in the right place.

I'm Danielle Leport, and this is with love, Danielle.

Hello, my loves. How about today we pray in an inclusive, bright, robust, rhythmic, mostly Buddhist, anything goes, doesn't matter who you are or what you believe in really kind of way.

This is a prayer of loving kindness.

It's called the Meta-Bavna prayer.

M-E-T-A, M-E-T-A, M-T-A.

Meta means loving-kindness.

And Bavana means cultivation.

So we are cultivating loving-kind's better than that now the legend behind

this prayer i don't know if i should give this a grain of salt or if i should just take it on wholesale

but the legend is that so the buddha meditating in the woods under the banyan tree for six years

straight apparently he did get up for basic bodily functions but was meditating in the woods under the banyan tree for six years straight, apparently.

He did get up for basic bodily functions, but was mostly in the zone.

He had to field some complaints of his fellow monks.

And as the story goes, the monks were complaining about how difficult the path of

enlightenment was, which is legit. And in response, the Buddha gave them the

Medabovna prayer. And he instructed each of them to go back into the woods and to practice

this prayer relentlessly.

And it is said that the monks re-emerged enlightened.

Let's go with that.

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