All-Pervasive Tenderness

This heart-opening meditation invites us to soften and bring a tender awareness to our moment-to-moment experience. The guidance is to evoke or imagine a simple moment of kindness and care and to fully open to the warm, loving qualities of that moment. The warm, loving qualities of the moment then infuse our awareness, and slowly, the entirety of our experience can be included and immersed in a tender, loving awareness. This practice is inspired by the work of Lama John Makransky and adapted from Tibetan Buddhist traditions, especially Dzogchen and Mahamudra.