Learning to show love and kindness to ourselves, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today, Rohan shares a Lovingkindness Meditation born out of a Spring walk around Oxford. In this practice, phrases are repeated that gradually move our focus from another, back to ourselves, and, finally, to larger and larger circles, encompassing the entirety of the universe. As Rohan shares, kindness is a natural quality of the heart that we all have to some degree — and with the right techniques and the right environment, it can be grown, cultivated.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, it's Dorothy, one of the producers on Meditative Story, with some really wonderful |
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| 0:56.3 | I have a confession to make. |
| 0:58.6 | When I first got into meditation, I couldn't stand the style known as loving kindness practice. |
| 1:04.7 | Compared to the rest of the mindfulness tradition, which I thought at the time was all about |
| 1:08.6 | being with what is here, I found loving kindness a bit artificial since the technique |
| 1:14.1 | uses thoughts to create some kind of results. |
| 1:18.1 | As a beginner, I found the idea of using thoughts to be the opposite of meditation. |
| 1:23.4 | Wasn't it about getting rid of thoughts after all? |
| 1:26.2 | Wasn't it? |
| 1:28.9 | I remember early on in my meditation life, meaning someone of a similar age who said his |
| 1:33.1 | main practice was loving kindness practice. |
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