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This afternoon I'd like to continue the discussion and practice of the Meta meditation.

And just as a reminder, it's really a very simple quality of wishing well for people.

The most simple expression of it is, may you be happy.

And it's not wanting anything back, it's not in exchange for anything.

It's just the development of that capacity for well wishing.

And it has a lot of different nuances in terms of the feeling.

50 shades of meta. It was more about the 50.

So, lest you be taken down the wrong path. I'll read a few.

I'd like to read a few poems,

which just express some of these different aspects of it, different ways we can

manifest this feeling and then we'll get into the practice a little bit and just talk about, you know, some different styles or ways of cultivating this quality.

So these are just a few poems and writings. The first one is called Shoulders and it's by the Palestinian American poet Naomi Schiabnai.

I don't know if you're familiar with her, she a wonderful poet.

So this is what she wrote.

A man crosses the street in the rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because

his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car

drive too near to his shadow. This man carries the world's most sensitive cargo, but he's not marked.

Nowhere does his jackets say fragile, handle with care. His ear fields up with breathing. He hears the hum of a

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