Let us sit for a while and do a loving kindness meditation.
So I'm going to ring this bell to invite you to bring your attention to this present moment.
And one of the best ways to bring our attention to the present moment is to feel our body.
So take a moment to feel where your body meets the chair or cushion,
Feel that sensation of touch,
The pressed muscles,
There is a good grounding place that we can keep our attention.
Closely feel that sensation of touch,
Grounding.
And then if you like,
You can expand that awareness to other parts of the body,
Where your body touches your clothes,
Where your body parts are touching each other.
Just be in your body.
I'll ring this bell to help you to settle your mind in your body.
Throughout the bell,
Try to stay within your body.
You may move from one part of your body to another,
But stay within the body throughout the bell.
You may move from one part of your body to another.
With this awareness of the body and the present moment,
Now we can invite a wholesome thought to our mind.
All various random thoughts occur in our mind,
But we can also generate thoughts.
Let us take this opportunity not simply to let random thoughts to occur one after the other,
But instead we will generate a wholesome thought,
Loving-kindness,
Genuine wish of well-being to ourselves and everyone else.
It's a goodwill towards all beings.
It is the friendliness for all.
It is the willingness for everyone to be well.
Let us invite that wholesome thought to our mind right now.
This is the best time for it.
Just like when we see a little baby,
A little baby,
Or just like when we are petting a puppy or a kitten,
Open your heart just like that,
Generating that genuine wish of well-being.
Let us direct this wholesome loving-kindness to ourselves first and feel your presence and make a genuine wish.
May this person sitting right here be well,
Be safe,
Be healthy,
Be peaceful.
Continue.
Continue to radiate these wholesome wishes to yourself.
Let it travel throughout the body,
Wishing each part of the body to be healthy.
Let us be generous to ourselves right now and make all the good wishes you can make to yourself.
A very special wish you would like to make yourself and do so.
Be well.
Be safe.
Be healthy.
Be peaceful.
Repeat.
Let us now radiate this same wish for everyone else,
Generously sharing this well-being with all others,
People who are known to us,
All people in our family,
Our good friends and people who have gathered here.
Let us expand this wish.
May all of them be well,
Be safe,
Be healthy,
Be peaceful.
Let us keep expanding this wish as wide as we can to include as many beings as we can to our loving kindness,
To embrace as many beings as we can.
May all people living everywhere be well,
Be safe,
Be healthy,
Stay warm,
Be peaceful.
Let us keep expanding this wish to all living beings,
Living in every direction,
All living beings,
Each and every living organism without exception.
Be well.
Be safe.
Be healthy.
Be peaceful.
Peaceful.
Peaceful.
Peaceful.
Peaceful.
So Ki Di Gaam Yoko Bawl So Ki Di Gaam Yoko Bawl So Ki Di Gaam Yoko Bawl So Ki Di Gaam Yoko Bawl So Ki Di Gaam Yoko Bawl We come out of the meditation and gently put your palms together and place them against your chest.
Let us take a moment to be grateful for this opportunity to have peaceful meditation in our life.
Let us speak grateful to the Buddha and to all other great enlightened masters in the past who passed this wisdom from generation to generation.
Let us feel grateful to whoever helped our meditation this morning,
To whoever helped us to come here to this place this morning.
Let us feel grateful to whoever helped to maintain this temple for us to come and practice.
Let us feel grateful even for these non-living things which helped our meditation,
Including this cushion,
This chair,
This bell,
These heaters and everything.
Deeply feel grateful to all people and all things which made this meditation possible for us today.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
