Transformative Loving Kindness Meditation Scripts For Yourself And Others

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Helping others doesn’t necessarily mean donating millions to charity or volunteering for fifty hours a week. Rather, it can involve approaching life with a fresh generosity of spirit, a simple giving-ness that is its own joy.

But how can we develop these qualities? Loving-kindness meditation, or “metta bhavana,” offers us the key. The Sanskrit word for meditation is “bhavana” which literally means “to cultivate.”

In this way, we can see meditation as a process of cultivating positive qualities of mind, rather than some state of hyper-concentration.

So “metta bhavana” means the “cultivation of loving-kindness.”

Loving-kindness (or lovingkindness) itself can be defined as non-judgmental, compassionate acceptance, and awareness of ourselves and others.

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