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31st October 2006, 03:31 AM
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Excerpt: How to Practise Meditation on Compassion
Excerpt: How to Practise Meditation on Compassion
Being kind of the same, being kind to others is being kind to ourselves. - stonepeace 'In generating compassion, you start by recognizing that you do not want suffering and that you have a right to have happiness. This can be verified or validated by your own experience. You then recognize that other people, just like yourself, also do not want to suffer and they have a right to have happiness. So this becomes the basis of your beginning to generate compassion. 'So... let us meditate on compassion today. Begin by visualizing a person who is acutely suffering, someone who is in pain or is inb a very uncomfortable situation. For the first three minutes of the meditation, reflect on that individual's suffering in a more analytic way - think about their intense suffering and the unfortunate state of that person's suffering for a few minutes, next, try to relate that to yourself, thinking, "That individual has the same capacity for experiencing pain, joy, happiness, and suffering that I do." Then, try to allow your natural response to arise - a natural feeling of compassion towards that person. 'Try to arrive at a conclusion: thinking how strongly you wish that person to be free from that suffering. And resolve that you will help that person to be relieved from their suffering. Finally, place your mind single-pointedly on that kind of conclusion or resolution, and for the last few minutes of the meditation try to simply generate your mind in a compassionate or loving state.' - The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (HH Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler)
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Namaste, Ben, Licensed Unity Teacher as of 1/1/07 
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31st October 2006, 06:45 AM
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