Boundless benevolence.
I'm invited to first of all ground yourself in your body.
Letting your awareness drop into your body and feel the connection between Mother Earth and this body.
And put aside worries and concerns.
Put aside roles and responsibilities.
Let go of the burden of ego.
Put aside thoughts or conceiving about the future or the past.
Let that awareness settle into this present moment.
By letting it be with the contact of the earth.
Let it be with earth element.
Releasing earth element.
Within you internally and externally.
And adjust your posture so that it's composed,
Relaxed,
Comfortable,
Serene and at ease.
And let awareness be wide and broad,
Expansive.
Yet in the middle of this awareness,
Central in your focus is your body.
And earth element.
Just being here.
Letting your awareness drop into your body.
Extend your awareness.
You're invited to extend your awareness now to the area around your chest,
To your spiritual heart,
To your emotional centre,
In that fourth chakra around your chest.
Open your awareness to the quality of warm benevolence,
Warm friendliness,
Loving kindness,
And perhaps as a way of kindling this feeling,
This quality,
You can think of someone or some being or something that naturally brings a smile to your heart.
A young child,
Small baby,
A devoted pet,
A teacher,
A friend.
And feel the moving of benevolence,
Warm friendliness,
Roused in your heart,
And nourish it.
Nourish it by putting aside the ego,
Putting aside trying,
And just let awareness be there for it.
Simply rest awareness in this quality and let it grow all by itself.
Sometimes people feel it like a cool breeze in their heart.
And sometimes people see it like an opening flower,
Or glowing light becoming brighter and brighter,
But not too bright to be stunning,
Just the right level of brightness.
Let this growing benevolence have a trajectory back through your life,
Healing you,
Healing all moments of injury with its opposite.
Healing,
Healing your being,
Healing your heart.
Balancing,
Completely receptive and open.
Letting whatever suffering is there to be transformed,
To freedom,
To lightness,
To buoyancy,
To ease and well-being.
Let this quality radiate from your heart to touch every cell of your body,
Every part of your being.
Healing your body,
Healing your heart.
Permeating,
Saturating your body and mind with warm benevolence,
Mitta,
Beautiful mitta,
Softening,
Gentle,
Receptive,
Open,
Kind.
And like a glowing light that becomes brighter,
Brighter and brighter.
Let this beautiful quality radiate beyond the bounds of what we normally call the self.
Out,
Out in front of you,
Out to your right,
Behind you,
And to your left,
Above and below.
Letting it radiate and glow as far as it feels comfortable to go.
And perhaps allow it to be boundless,
Boundless radiation.
And with it boundaries dissolve.
Boundaries between self and other dissolve.
Boundaries between internal and external dissolve.
Allowing consciousness filled with mitta to inonjour,
Boundlessly radiating in all directions.
Resting in this divine abode,
Resting in this awareness.
So let's just rest in this beautiful boundless quality for a few minutes in silence.
LaHood 20.
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