Loving Kindness (Maitrī) For A Respected Friend

This practice of loving kindness (maitri or metta), excerpted from a live session, includes two of the objects in the traditional training sequence: ourselves as a practitioner and a benefactor (a respected friend). The benefactor is used as an object to make sure our loving kindness is free from conditional expectations and flows freely; with that, we will then keep it pure for all the other objects we might direct it towards.

Reviews

Wonderful concise practice that, despite other benefits, reduces anxiety by developing the opposite, which is loving kindness towards yourself and others. Thank you Tenpa 🙏🏼

Thank you for the guidance, it was pleasantly intimate and more casual and easy to develop a feeling tone of connected kindness, upon first listening. 🙏🏼