How & Why to Practice Metta Towards Yourself

This is a short excerpt from a talk on metta dealing specifically with how and why to practice metta towards yourself.

In this modern world we are taught that it is selfish to think about yourself, to spend time on yourself, but we cannot hope to help others if we cannot help ourselves first.

Similarly, we cannot hope to develop metta, limitless goodwill, for all beings, unless we have goodwill for ourselves.

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Deep, but delivered in a light hearted way. Thank you.

A refreshing and relatable perspective, thank you for sharing. 🙏🏼🕊️

Thank you! That was wonderful

Thank you for this, brother! I love that you use the oxygen mask metaphor! Keep up the good work. ❤️

I assume this is the principle that one drowning man can’t save another? So obvious & so easy to miss! Thank you