Ep. 141 – Metta: Preparing the Ground

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, Vipassana, Buddhism, Insightmeditation, Meditation, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the quality of Metta, or lovingkindness, and offers advice on preparing the ground from which Metta can grow and flourish.

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This dharma talk from February 5, 2000, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“Something very beautiful begins to happen when we click onto the Metta channel, which comes by focusing on the good qualities in people, and that is: we become increasingly open to feelings of gratitude.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:15.0	I think of those areas or qualities the Buddha recommended as the foundation out of which or on which we can build this quality of meta, loving kindness, there were three of those qualities
0:18.6	that really stood out for me,
0:20.5	and I think it which encompass the rest, but is being straightforward, being
0:27.8	gentle, not being proud. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:49.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:55.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:00.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. In the course of our lives we sometimes meet people who seem to radiate a great deal of loving kindness and loving care, who seemed to
1:31.0	regard the whole world with this feeling.
1:37.0	May be well known people, like the Dalai Lama,
1:41.0	who just seems to radiate kindness and compassion.
1:47.0	Maybe different teachers that we've met over the years.
1:53.8	Or maybe very ordinary people in our lives
1:57.9	who somehow seem to have this very great capacity for love.
2:08.8	When you're with someone like the Dalai Lama,
2:12.3	when he's speaking to you it's as if for him in that moment you are the most
2:18.1	important person in the world. That's wonderful to feel that kind of attention, wholeheartedness of attention.
2:29.7	There's a story which illustrates this capacity, a story about him, which Sharon was mentioned.
2:40.0	She was at a conference in, I think it was Arizona with the Dalai Lama and some big conference at a big hotel.
2:48.0	And in the last day of the conference, as everyone was leaving.
2:53.3	His Holiness had requested the hotel management
2:57.7	to call the entire staff of the hotel down to the lobby.
3:02.0	And before he left he greeted every single person in thanking
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