Metta: Sympathy For My Devils скачать в хорошем качестве

Metta: Sympathy For My Devils

An introductory Dharma talk followed by guided awareness Metta practice: the Metta practice itself begins around 15 minutes in. I often try to draw attention to how important it is to recognise ourselves as ’not one’: as ’not knowing’ ourselves fully, not being ‘self-transparent’ but rather a multitude of different 'self-states’ organising our feelings, thoughts, and sensations, and our perception of both ‘self’ and ‘world’. Last week’s talk began to explore empathy as being at the heart of our practicing of relationship, and touched on Metta (‘loving kindness’) meditation as one way of investigating this experientially. This is Metta that is addressed not to friends, enemies and All Beings in the outside world, but to ourselves as we ourselves show up as all of these: the parts of me I like, the parts I don’t, the parts I see as the ‘real me’ and those I try to deny altogether. Metta practice can offer us a safe space of kindness, just to be aware of all (or at least of more) of ‘us’, not to integrate or eradicate any of these parts, but to offer ourselves Joko’s A Bigger Container, as which to hold ourselves more whole.