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metta phrases

  • walking each other home

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    tom davidson-marx

    Now, while loving-kindness and compassion might sound like these grand ideas, they’re actually really practical meditation practices. When you put in the effort, they truly transform your heart. Think of it as a master gardener bringing dead soil back to life.  These practices can do the same for parts of yourself you’ve neglected. In a

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  • a gentle rain in the garden of the heart

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    tom davidson-marx

    I was initially turned off by Buddhist metta meditation. I felt it was silly sentimentality, like putting on a Pollyanna-ish fake smile. But slowly, things changed. Now I hold this practice most dearly. It turns out loving-kindness meditation is not sentimentality, and it is not really affection. It’s more about living with the Buddha called

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