Happy Hour: Practicing Loving-Kindness Where It's Easiest

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2024.11.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/0NRVX1QtcZw. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.8	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:11.6	There.
0:13.8	So hello, everyone.
0:15.9	Hello and welcome to this edition of Happy Hour.
0:21.3	So, for today's practice, I want to invite us to, yeah, to embrace, embrace where metta, where compassion is easiest, where it's easiest.
0:43.5	And for some, it's easiest to start with someone we care about.
0:52.8	That's where it's easiest. That's where it's easiest.
0:54.4	That's where it's simpler and then we can turn it to ourselves.
1:00.0	And one reason for turning to where it's easiest is, you know, with Meta, you don't
1:07.3	want to fight against it.
1:08.6	You want to find a way that's really easy and wholesome and
1:12.6	nourishing and and your whole heart and body and mind can be suffused with it. And sometimes when we
1:20.4	start practicing with ourselves, there might be some edges. There might be some nooks and crannies
1:27.3	that are like, no, not quite.
1:29.0	I'm not ready to love all those parts yet.
1:31.3	So it's okay.
1:32.7	It's all right.
1:33.5	It's okay.
1:34.1	We take it gently.
1:36.3	We turn, we warm up the meta through someone else.
1:43.3	It was really, really easy to have metaphor.
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