Metta Loving-Kindness Meditation For A Friend

The practice of Metta Loving-Kindness Meditation is over 2,000 years old and has been practiced continuously since the time of the Buddha. The aim of this practice is to strengthen our ability to generate and extend thoughts of unconditional love, warm feelings of kindness, and the attitude of friendliness to ourselves, our loved ones, to strangers, to difficult people and to all sentient, living beings on planet Earth (and beyond). This meditation invites you to focus on a friend and repeat specific phrases to yourself as the guide speaks them aloud. If you have trouble deciding which friend to choose, please know that you can repeat this practice many times offering the phrases, and feelings, of Loving-kindness to a different person, or the same person, each time.