Metta
I first heard of Metta
using the Calm meditation app back in June.
It’s a Buddhist term for loving kindness,
benevolence, or universal love.
It was introduced to me
as a meditative spiritual practice
where you are kind to yourself first,
an as within so without a type of thing.
With a sincere, loving intent you repeat
some phrases like a mantra.
Feeling into the words as you say them.
May I Be Happy,
May I Be Well,
May I Be Safe,
May I Be At Peace.
Repeat them a time or two.
Then shift your awareness and intent
to someone else, someone you love and repeat
May You Be Happy,
May You Be Well,
May You be Safe,
May You Be At Peace.
You alternate between the verses
as long as you desire.
Sit with it how does it feel?
Then you can even see how it feels
to shift your intention to someone
you have an issue with or don’t particularly like
and try it with them.
Which brings us back to the definition
of the Pali word Metta in that:
it is loving-kindness,
benevolence, or universal Love
that is the very essence
of this reflective practice.
I write of this today after finding myself drawn
to use these phrases again and again
in my meditative practice these last few months.
I leave you today with Metta
I Wish For You To Be Happy
I Wish For You To Be Well
I Wish For You To Be Safe
I Wish For You To Be At Peace
I Wish For Your Heart To Feel At Peace.
Make them your own,
phrase them the way it seems to fit You.
Phrase them in a way that allows you to feel them.
May You Enjoy Practicing Metta.
All My Love Always, Keith
