Loving-kindness meditation by directions
Then you extend it to all others, saying mentally: “May all beings of universe be free from from enmity, free from affliction, free from anxiety, and live happily”.Mean it and feel it, contemplating thus for 15 minutes.Also try to see that the world is filled with your love and with a great desire for peace.
How can group effort be used for the mind- deliverance of loving –kindness ( Metta-cetovimutti)? It is very important because group effort united thought-power is much more than individual power. Every evening, all members (yogis) send thought waves in one direction with their hearts endued with loving kindness; likewise the second direction; likewise the third direction; likewise the fourth direction; and so above, below and around everywhere and equally they dwell pervading the entire world with their hearts endued with loving kindness that is abundant, exalted, measureless, free from enmity and free from affliction. For the method to be most effective, the practioners should at least reach the first jhana.Contemplate thus:
1. May all beings in the eastern direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
2. May all beings in the southern intermediate direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
3. May all beings in the souther direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
4. May all beings in the western intermediate direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
5. May all beings in the western direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
6.May all beings in the northern intermediate direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
7. May all beings in the northern direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
8. May all beings in the eastern intermediate direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
9. May all beings in the downward direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily.
10. May all beings in the upward direction be free from enmity, affliction, anxiety and live happily. Believe that you can send thought waves charged with the boundless power of loving kindness.
Do not forget to use this power when you encounter danger. Difficult problems can be overcome by the mind-deliverance of loving-kindness.As a habit, try to do this exercise before going to bed and after awakening in the morning.
Do it now.Try and begin now. In conclusion, I would like to ask you to meditate a few minutes on loving-kindness.If you send out these thoughts of metta before you go to sleep.I am positive that you will have extra-ordinary, peaceful sleep.
If you can maintain these thought of metta, you will have a serene, peaceful, successful life and you will be loved because you love. The world is like a great mirror and if you look at it with a smiling face, you will see your own smiling beautiful face. If you look at itwith a long face, you will invariably see your own ugly face.If you treat the world properly, kindly; the world will treat you kindly.
We should not expect other people to treat us kindly first, but we should start with ourselves treating them kindly. As written in the Bible’s book of Matthew: “Do onto others, as you would have them do onto you”.
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