In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called Releasing Receiving.
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This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk from Rick’s series on Wise Effort, focusing on The Essence of Practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.
Life happens to us, and we happen in life, in nature, in reality. Then what?
We can either be swept along, in ignorance, fueled and poisoned by hatred, greed, and heartache.
Or we can practice:
We can either be swept along, in ignorance, fueled and poisoned by hatred, greed, and heartache.
Or we can practice:
In our relationship to and how we respond to
what is happening to us
our experiences of that, and
the nature of reality itself
Practice is like a three-legged stool, with three key elements. In Pali: Metta. Sati. Bhavana. — loosely translated into English: Loving. Knowing. Growing.
This talk and meditation featured several quotations which can be found under the video players below.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – which are open to everyone!
Meditation: The Essence of Practice – Loving, Knowing, and Growing
This talk touched on the three elements of practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.
Here are the quotes Rick offered for each:
— LOVING —
May all beings be happy and secure.
May all beings be happy at heart!
Omitting none, whether they are weak or strong,
seen or unseen, near or distant, born or to-be-born:
May all beings be happy.
Let none deceive another,
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or ill will wish for another to suffer.
Just as a mother would protect her child, her only child,
with her own life,
even so you should cultivate a boundless heart toward all beings.
You should cultivate kindness
toward the whole world with a boundless heart:
above, below, and all around,
unobstructed, without enmity or hate.
Whether standing, walking, sitting, or lying down,
as long as you are alert,
you should be resolved upon this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding here and now.
Let none deceive another,
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or ill will wish for another to suffer.
Just as a mother would protect her child, her only child,
with her own life,
even so you should cultivate a boundless heart toward all beings.
You should cultivate kindness
toward the whole world with a boundless heart:
above, below, and all around,
unobstructed, without enmity or hate.
Whether standing, walking, sitting, or lying down,
as long as you are alert,
you should be resolved upon this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding here and now.
—Adapted from the Metta Sutta
There are those who do not realize
that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this
settle their quarrels.
—Dhammapada 1.6
“As I am, so are others;
as others are, so am I.”
Having thus identified self and others,
harm no one nor have them harmed.
—Sutta Nipāta 3.710
Knowing that the other person is angry,
one who remains mindful and calm
acts for one’s own best interest
and for the other’s interest, too.
—Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.188
Original love is the ocean, it’s been there all along.
Finally, there is no difference anymore between us and it.
And that is a great great blessing.
—Henry Shukman
There are those who do not realize
that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this
settle their quarrels.
—Dhammapada 1.6
“As I am, so are others;
as others are, so am I.”
Having thus identified self and others,
harm no one nor have them harmed.
—Sutta Nipāta 3.710
Knowing that the other person is angry,
one who remains mindful and calm
acts for one’s own best interest
and for the other’s interest, too.
—Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.188
Original love is the ocean, it’s been there all along.
Finally, there is no difference anymore between us and it.
And that is a great great blessing.
—Henry Shukman
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