Advancing Loving Kindness - Lesson And Practice

This 20-minute guided lesson and practice builds on the practice of extending loving kindness to self, loved ones, and others by adding in a person more difficult to include - which is what makes it Advancing Loving Kindness. The lesson includes a discussion of how to extend wishes of safety, health, happiness, and ease to people who are difficult or challenging. Listeners explore and practice extending loving kindness, a form of compassion, to themselves, a dear one, an acquaintance or stranger, the more difficult person, and finally to all beings.

This track is the third of a four-track Loving Kindness series. Listeners who are not familiar with or practiced in extending loving kindness to individuals who challenge their ability to do so are recommended to work first with the track Beginning Loving Kindness - Lesson and Practice.

This practice begins and ends with the chime of three bells and includes references to breathing.