What is meditation of loving kindness?
Like other forms of meditation, loving kindness meditation reduces stress, reduces blood pressure and fills the practicing with a great sense of balance. The love of meditation of kindness or Metta Bhavan is said to have come from the highest Buddha himself, Siddhārtha Gautam, which is assumed that he died between 450 and 400 BCE. This type of meditation is about the compassion of yourself and others, accepting what is, and retraining of negative mental habits into positive.
Buddha taught that love is more power than hate. Given the compassion, the hatred that is located in the ego and illusion is simply evaporated. Theoretically and many also say in practice, if half of the world practices the loving kindness of meditation daily, the other half would be transformed by the healing energies it created.
Meditation of loving kindness must begin with themselves. Experts believe that a meditation being that is full of self -harm or other negative -pointed -focused inward can not generate or intoThe ends actually experience compassion. The silence of chatting the world and finding the way inside to perfect peace by repeating the mantra, visualizing the object, or eraseing each distraction as it appears, is the first step.
According to tradition, meditation of loving kindness includes a meditation series called Four Divine States in which the first metta or friendly kindness is considered. metta can be described as a sense of acceptance and affection for all living beings that come from the heart that has no blockages. It also contains a blessing of joy for others that is completely altruistic. Metta is benevolent and without its own profit.
karuna, , which is also compassionate, has a different emotional quality. Is perhaps more engaged or more active; Benevolent but distant wishes for world happiness are transformed active affection. Karuna may include a desire to bear pain to save others.
Mudita expresses the joyful and honest happiness for the happiness of others. It is the opposite of negative feelings such as envy or jealousy. Mudita radiates outwards in ever -expanding circles, while envy or similar negative feelings move in with the ever -narrow self -salted.
boukkha, also known as equivalence, is the final meditation in the series. In this state, the mind and the heart are in a state of perfect balance in which the insight that sees the whole circle. This is a passionate state - even strong positive or strong negative feelings cannot create imbalances.
Each of these steps should be followed for cleanliness of compassion. For example, without the first digestion, Metta could change the meditation of the karu in Lita instead of compassion. Without the previous three states, the final meditative loving kindness, balance, could manifest itself as apathy instead of deep acceptance.